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.
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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.
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Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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Genesis 42:21
They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
1 Samuel 15:35
Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
1 Kings 17:18
She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
2 Kings 20:5
“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Jeremiah 14:17
“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Luke 23:34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
Hebrews 12:17
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
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Exodus 27:20
“You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
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Exodus 32:31
Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
Deuteronomy 9:15
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy 9:25
So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
Luke 9:41
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
Luke 9:42
While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
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Leviticus 19:17
“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Leviticus 19:18
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Job 4:2
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Proverbs 27:5
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Jeremiah 13:15
Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Matthew 5:43
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
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2 Kings 4:27
When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
2 Kings 4:28
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
Job 7:11
“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Matthew 26:37
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
Matthew 26:38
Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”
Luke 12:50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Luke 22:44
Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
John 12:27
“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.
Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
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Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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Ezra 9:2
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
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Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Psalms 51:12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
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Psalms 119:32
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.
Ephesians 6:8
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Revelation 22:12
“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
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Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Mark 9:24
Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
Mark 14:72
The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the words that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
Luke 7:38
Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:44
Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
Acts 10:19
While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.
Acts 10:31
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 5:5
Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:7
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 27:9
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
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Matthew 26:21
As they were eating, he said, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
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Matthew 26:22
They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”
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Luke 19:42
saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:43
For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
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Judges 16:15
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
John 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 2:27
Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
2 Corinthians 6:6
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
Hebrews 10:24
Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
1 John 3:18
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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Acts 18:10
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
Acts 22:19
I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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Acts 19:4
Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
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Acts 19:20
So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
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1 Chronicles 4:10
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 5:2
You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
1 Corinthians 12:26
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
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 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
Galatians 2:5
to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Peter 1:6
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
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Romans 14:15
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 1:4
I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 4:19
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 16:3
When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 1:14
as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
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.
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
Philippians 1:4
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
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Mark 10:22
But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Ephesians 4:20
But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
Philemon 1:5
hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,
Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
Revelation 2:19
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
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2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2 Corinthians 1:10
who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,
2 Corinthians 1:11
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
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Lamentations 3:32
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Lamentations 3:33
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
John 16:6
But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
2 Corinthians 2:8
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
2 Corinthians 2:10
Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
2 Corinthians 2:11
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
2 Corinthians 8:13
For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
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,
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Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
1 Corinthians 4:14
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:23
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
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Acts 20:1
After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
Acts 20:17
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
Acts 20:18
When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:30
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
2 Corinthians 1:19
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
1 Timothy 3:5
(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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