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2 Corinthians 13:10–11
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2 Corinthians 13:10
10Therefore 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.
10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should vse sharpnesse, according to the power which the Lord hath giuen me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Corinthians 13:11
11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
11Finally, brethren, farewell: Bee perfect, bee of good comfort, bee of one minde, liue in peace, and the God of loue and peace shalbe with you.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 13:10
To perform the act of forming characters, letters or figures, as representatives of sounds or ideas. To send letters.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Away or not present; withdrawn from a place or person.
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That not; for fear that.
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Being at hand or in a place; also a gift, or to bring, offer, show, or give.
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Employment, purpose, or customary practice; as a verb, to employ or be accustomed.
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Severity, abruptness, or decisive force in speech or action.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Ability, strength, authority, dominion, or the right and capacity to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
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Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
edification
Spiritual or moral instruction that builds up the hearer.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Harmful tearing down or ruin, contrasted with the Lord-given authority to build up.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Corinthians 13:11
At the end or conclusion; lastly.
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Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
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A parting wish of wellbeing, or the act of taking leave.
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Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress; also to strengthen, encourage, or console.
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The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A shared disposition, purpose, or agreement.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
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Open the full verse study3And 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.
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Open the full verse study13This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
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Open the full verse study21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
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Open the full verse study2But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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Open the full verse study8For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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Open the full verse study20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
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Open the full verse study2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
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Open the full verse study14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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Open the full verse study16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
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Open the full verse study10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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Open the full verse study33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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Open the full verse study50Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
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Open the full verse study18If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
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Open the full verse study8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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Open the full verse study11Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
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Open the full verse study1IF there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Open the full verse study14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
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Open the full verse study9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
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Open the full verse study8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
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Open the full verse study10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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Open the full verse study4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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Open the full verse study17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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Open the full verse study1FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
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Open the full verse study27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
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Open the full verse study9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
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Open the full verse study13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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Open the full verse study20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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Open the full verse study18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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Open the full verse study13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
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Open the full verse study16Rejoice evermore.
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Open the full verse study23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
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Open the full verse study16Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
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Open the full verse study22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Open the full verse study29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
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Open the full verse study21But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
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Open the full verse study30And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
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Open the full verse study23Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
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Open the full verse study24So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
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Open the full verse study20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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Open the full verse study23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
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Open the full verse study61And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
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Open the full verse study49And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
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Open the full verse study23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
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Open the full verse study48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
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Open the full verse study16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
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Open the full verse study2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
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Open the full verse study21The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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Open the full verse study5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
6That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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Open the full verse study19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
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