2 Corinthians 2:7

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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,

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”