I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 6:11We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
Philippians 1:7It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. For in my chains and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partners in grace with me.
Treasury of Scripture
I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die and live with you.
to condemn.
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.
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.
for.
2 Corinthians 6:11,12
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged…
ye.
2 Corinthians 3:2
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
2 Corinthians 11:11
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
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.
to die.
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: …
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.
