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2 Corinthians 7 cross-references
2 Corinthians 7 has 16 verses, which point to 327 other passages and are cited by 281. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
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Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Points to (42)
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 — For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 54 votes
- 1 Peter 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the… 45 votes
- James 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye… 42 votes
- Proverbs 8:13 — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I… 40 votes
- Psalms 51:10 — Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 34 votes
- 1 John 3:3 — And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 28 votes
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- Hebrews 12:14 — Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 60 votes
- Hebrews 12:1 — Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every… 49 votes
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,… 49 votes
- Galatians 5:16 — This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 43 votes
2 Corinthians 7:2
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
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- 2 Corinthians 11:9 — And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the… 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 6:12–13 — Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 5 votes
- Acts 20:33 — I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 5 votes
- 2 John 1:10 — If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God… 3 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 3:7–9 — For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 3 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10 — Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that… 3 votes
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- 2 Corinthians 6:12 — Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 6:6 — By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 5 votes
- Acts 20:33 — I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 5 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3 — For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 votes
2 Corinthians 7:3
I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
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- Philippians 1:8–9 — For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 6:11–12 — O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 5 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 2:8 — So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 12:15 — And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 3 votes
- Ruth 1:16–17 — And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest,… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 13:10 — Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the… 2 votes
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- Philippians 1:7 — Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my… 17 votes
- 2 Corinthians 6:11 — O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 6 votes
- 2 Corinthians 11:11 — Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 3 votes
- 2 Samuel 15:21 — And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what… 3 votes
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:4 — Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by… 8 votes
- James 1:2 — My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 6 votes
- 2 Corinthians 3:12 — Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 6 votes
- Colossians 1:24 — Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my… 3 votes
- Philippians 2:17 — Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. 3 votes
- 1 Corinthians 1:4 — I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 3 votes
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- John 16:33 — These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation:… 29 votes
- Colossians 1:24 — Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my… 11 votes
- Acts 20:24 — But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course… 7 votes
- Philemon 1:7 — For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee,… 6 votes
2 Corinthians 7:5
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
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- 2 Corinthians 2:13 — I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from… 8 votes
- Deuteronomy 32:25 — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with… 6 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5 — For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter… 3 votes
- Galatians 4:11 — I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 11:23–30 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 4:8–12 — We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 3 votes
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- 2 Corinthians 4:8 — We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 25 votes
- Psalms 56:3 — What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 25 votes
- Psalms 34:4 — I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 23 votes
- 1 Samuel 30:6 — And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was… 9 votes
2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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- 2 Thessalonians 2:16–17 — Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us… 9 votes
- 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 — Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 9 votes
- 3 John 1:2–4 — Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 7 votes
- 2 Corinthians 7:13 — Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus,… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 31:13 — Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning… 5 votes
- Isaiah 57:18 — I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his… 4 votes
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- Isaiah 61:1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the… 35 votes
- 2 Corinthians 1:4 — Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by… 29 votes
- Jeremiah 31:25 — For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 21 votes
- Romans 15:5 — Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ… 10 votes
2 Corinthians 7:7
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
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- Jude 1:3 — Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write… 4 votes
- 2 John 1:4 — I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the… 4 votes
- James 5:17 — Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it… 3 votes
- James 4:9–10 — Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 3 votes
- Hebrews 2:1 — Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we… 3 votes
- Colossians 2:5 — For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and… 3 votes
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- Colossians 1:4 — Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 8:7 — Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in… 5 votes
- Philippians 2:2 — Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 4 votes
- 2 Corinthians 7:11 — For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea,… 4 votes
2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
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- Revelation 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 4 votes
- John 16:6 — But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 4 votes
- Hebrews 12:9–11 — Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:2–11 — For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3 votes
- Jeremiah 20:7–9 — O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in… 3 votes
- Exodus 5:22–23 — And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is… 3 votes
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- Psalms 126:5 — They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 11 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:2 — For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 6 votes
- Titus 1:13 — This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 4 votes
- 2 Corinthians 7:12 — Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause… 3 votes
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
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- Luke 15:7 — I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety… 7 votes
- Jeremiah 31:18–20 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock… 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 13:8–10 — For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 4 votes
- 2 Corinthians 7:10–11 — For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh… 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 7:3 — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4 votes
- Psalms 38:18 — For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 4 votes
Pointed to from (18)
- Matthew 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 80 votes
- Psalms 30:5 — For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in… 19 votes
- Ecclesiastes 7:3 — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 12 votes
- 1 Corinthians 13:6 — Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 votes
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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- Acts 3:19 — Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall… 35 votes
- Acts 11:18 — When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the… 28 votes
- 2 Timothy 2:25–26 — In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the… 24 votes
- 2 Samuel 12:13 — And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath… 23 votes
- Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his… 19 votes
- Luke 15:10 — Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. 17 votes
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- Proverbs 17:22 — A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 38 votes
- Luke 15:10 — Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. 20 votes
- James 4:9 — Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 18 votes
- Matthew 3:2 — And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 15 votes
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
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- Romans 14:18 — For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. 9 votes
- 1 Timothy 5:21–22 — I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things… 8 votes
- 2 Timothy 2:15 — Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word… 7 votes
- Ephesians 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 5 votes
- Psalms 2:11 — Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 5 votes
- Revelation 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 4 votes
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- Revelation 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 10 votes
- Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his… 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:6 — Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 3 votes
- 2 Timothy 4:16 — At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their… 2 votes
2 Corinthians 7:12
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
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- 2 Corinthians 2:9 — For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 7 votes
- 1 Timothy 3:5 — (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 11:28 — Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 11:11 — Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 7:8 — For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:17 — For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of… 3 votes
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- 2 Corinthians 2:4 — For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be… 10 votes
- 1 Corinthians 12:25 — That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 4 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:9 — For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:3 — And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice;… 3 votes
2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
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- 2 Corinthians 7:6 — Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; 6 votes
- 1 Peter 3:8 — Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 4 votes
- 1 Corinthians 16:13 — Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 4 votes
- Romans 15:32 — That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. 4 votes
- Romans 12:15 — Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 4 votes
- 1 Corinthians 13:5–7 — Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 3 votes
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- Philemon 1:7 — For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee,… 11 votes
- 2 Corinthians 7:6 — Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; 6 votes
- 1 Corinthians 16:18 — For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such. 6 votes
- Romans 15:32 — That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. 6 votes
2 Corinthians 7:14
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
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- 2 Corinthians 7:4 — Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am… 4 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 1:4 — So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 9:2–4 — For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 8:24 — Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your… 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 1:18–20 — But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 10:8 — For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and… 2 votes
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- Ezra 8:22 — For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the… 24 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 1:4 — So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions… 5 votes
- 2 Corinthians 8:24 — Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your… 5 votes
- Ephesians 4:25 — Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 4 votes
2 Corinthians 7:15
And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
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- Philippians 2:12 — Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,… 9 votes
- 1 John 3:17 — But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion… 6 votes
- 2 Corinthians 2:9 — For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 6 votes
- Isaiah 66:2 — For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man… 5 votes
- Psalms 119:120 — My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. 5 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14 — And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be… 4 votes
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- Philippians 2:12 — Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,… 9 votes
- 2 Corinthians 10:6 — And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 votes
- Luke 8:47 — And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared… 4 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 3:4 — And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 2 votes
2 Corinthians 7:16
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
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- 2 Corinthians 2:3 — And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice;… 4 votes
- Philemon 1:21 — Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. 3 votes
- Philemon 1:8 — Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 3 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 3:4 — And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 1 votes
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- Philippians 1:6 — Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day… 23 votes
- Philemon 1:21 — Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. 3 votes
- Galatians 5:10 — I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you… 3 votes