2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
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2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
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1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
Psalms 34:4
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms 56:3
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
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Isaiah 51:3
For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51:12
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
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Jeremiah 6:25
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.
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Acts 16:9
A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
2 Corinthians 1:16
and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
2 Corinthians 9:2
for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
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Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
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Romans 15:26
For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
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2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
2 Corinthians 2:2
For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
2 Corinthians 12:21
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
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Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
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2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
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1 Timothy 1:3
As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
2 Timothy 2:23
But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
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Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalms 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
Galatians 4:29
But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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Titus 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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