"I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}." — 2 Corinthians 7:3

2 Corinthians 7:3 · KJV

“I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.”

— 2 Corinthians 7:3

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

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.

2 Corinthians 7 — Context

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.

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.

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.

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.

Cross References

Philippians 1:8-9

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 6:11-12

O {ye} Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

Ruth 1:16-17

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, {or} to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people {shall be} my people, and thy God my God: {Intreat...: or, Be not against me}

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. {for you: Gr. for your souls}

1 Thessalonians 2:8

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

2 Corinthians 11:11

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

2 Corinthians 2:4-5

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

2 Corinthians 13:10

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.