I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.
I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.
2 Corinthians — Paul's most personal letter. A defense of gospel ministry under pressure — comfort and conflict, giving and glory, weakness and power — with the tone shifting markedly at chapter 10.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Paul is glad not only because of their good resolve but because of the good actions by which they were correcting their former sinful practices. This is why he has perfect confidence in them.
Ambrosiaster· COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES, 384patristic
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
I have confidence in you, in all things - It appears that the apostle was now fully persuaded, from the accounts given by Titus, that every scandal had been put away from this Church; that the faction which had long distracted and divided them was nearly broken; that all was on the eve of being restored to its primitive purity and excellence; and that their character was now so firmly fixed, that there was no reason to apprehend that they should be again tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Corinthians 2:3I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be saddened by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share…
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I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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2 Thessalonians 3:4And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.
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Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be saddened by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more
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Philemon 1:21Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
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And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Philemon 1:8So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
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Nor did we seek praise from you or from anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we had authority to demand it.
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being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be saddened by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.
