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2 Corinthians 2 13
I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. Instead, I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia.
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Deuteronomy 32:25
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the young woman will be killed, the infant and the gray-haired man.
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2 Corinthians 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 30
Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman— I’m a better one: with far more labors, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.Five times I received the forty lashes minus one from the Jews.Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers;toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.Not to mention other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my concern for all the churches.Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?If boasting is necessary, I will boast about my weaknesses.
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Jeremiah 45:3
‘ You have said,“ Woe is me, because the LORD has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.”’
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2 Corinthians 2 9
I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.
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1 Corinthians 15 31
I face death every day, as surely as I may boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Isaiah 33:12
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
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1 Thessalonians 3 5
For this reason, when I could no longer stand it, I also sent him to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be for nothing.
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2 Corinthians 4 8-2 Corinthians 4 12
We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair;we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body.For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh.So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.
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Galatians 4:11
I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.
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Jeremiah 6:25
Don’t go out to the fields; don’t walk on the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
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2 Corinthians 2 3
I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn’t have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours.
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Matthew 11:28-30
“ Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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2 Corinthians 1 16-2 Corinthians 1 17
and to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then come to you again from Macedonia and be helped by you on my journey to Judea.Now when I planned this, was I of two minds? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say“ Yes, yes” and“ No, no” at the same time?
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Galatians 4:19-20
My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.
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Genesis 8:9
but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself.
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Acts 20:1
After the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples, encouraged them, and after saying farewell, departed to go to Macedonia.
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Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on every side and harass him at every step.
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1 Corinthians 16 5
I will come to you after I pass through Macedonia— for I will be traveling through Macedonia—
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Jeremiah 8:18
My joy has flown away; grief has settled on me. My heart is sick.
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Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the gossip of many people,“ Terror is on every side! Report him; let’s report him!” Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.“ Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him.”
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2 Corinthians 12 20-2 Corinthians 12 21
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, angry outbursts, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practiced.