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.


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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.
Jude 1 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
2 John 1 12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
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.
Psalms 138 3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
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John 15 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Jeremiah 10 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Matthew 5 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Colossians 2 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
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; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Job 23 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Psalms 34 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Philippians 3 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
Philippians 1 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Philippians 4 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
2 Samuel 1 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 John 1 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 Corinthians 1 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Psalms 69 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
John 16 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Philippians 2 28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
1 Thessalonians 4 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
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Deuteronomy 11 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Hebrews 10 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Proverbs 23 15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Psalms 38 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
1 Chronicles 17 19 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.
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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.
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Psalms 119 145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
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1 Peter 2 19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
Ecclesiastes 9 1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
John 16 6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Psalms 19 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Hebrews 13 22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
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