TSK · 2 Corinthians 7:11

He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.