BLB 2Cr 1

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2Cr 1:12 — For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

our rejoicing		Job 13:15; Job 23:10-12; Job 27:5,6; Job 31:1-40; Psa 7:3-5; Psa 44:17-21; Isa 38:3; Act 24:16; Rom 9:1; 1Cr 4:4; Gal 6:4; 1Ti 1:5,19,20; Hbr 13:18; 1Pe 3:16,21; 1Jo 3:19-22
simplicity		2Cr 11:3; Rom 16:18,19
godly		2Cr 2:17; 2Cr 8:8; Jos 24:14; 1Cr 5:8; Eph 6:14; Phl 1:10; Tts 2:7
not		2Cr 1:17; 2Cr 4:2; 2Cr 10:2-4; 2Cr 12:15-19; 1Cr 2:4,5,13; 1Cr 15:10; Jam 3:13-18; Jam 4:6
we have		"That is, ""We have conducted ourselves;"" for [ ( )] in Greek, and conversatio in Latin, are used to denote the whole of a man's conduct, the tenor and practice of his life."

Correlating Passages

our rejoicing

	Job 13:15	Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
	Job 23:10	But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
	Job 23:11	My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
	Job 23:12	Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].
	Job 27:5	God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
	Job 27:6	My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
	Job 31:1	I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
	Job 31:2	For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
	Job 31:3	[Is] not destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of iniquity?
	Job 31:4	Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
	Job 31:5	If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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	Psa 7:3	O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
	Psa 7:4	If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
	Psa 7:5	Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
	Psa 44:17	All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
	Psa 44:18	Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
	Psa 44:19	Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
	Psa 44:20	If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
	Psa 44:21	Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
	Isa 38:3	And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
	Act 24:16	And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and [toward] men.
	Rom 9:1	I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
	1Cr 4:4	For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
	Gal 6:4	But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
	1Ti 1:5	Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
	1Ti 1:19	Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
	1Ti 1:20	Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
	Hbr 13:18	Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
	1Pe 3:16	Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
	1Pe 3:21	The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
	1Jo 3:19	And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
	1Jo 3:20	For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
	1Jo 3:21	Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God.
	1Jo 3:22	And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

simplicity

	2Cr 11:3	But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
	Rom 16:18	For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
	Rom 16:19	For your obedience is come abroad unto all [men]. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

godly

	2Cr 2:17	For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
	2Cr 8:8	I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
	Jos 24:14	Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
	1Cr 5:8	Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
	Eph 6:14	Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
	Phl 1:10	That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
	Tts 2:7	In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

not

	2Cr 1:17	When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
	2Cr 4:2	But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
	2Cr 10:2	But 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.
	2Cr 10:3	For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
	2Cr 10:4	(For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
	2Cr 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.
	2Cr 12:16	But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
	2Cr 12:17	Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
	2Cr 12:18	I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?
	2Cr 12:19	Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
	1Cr 2:4	And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
	1Cr 2:5	That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
	1Cr 2:13	Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
	1Cr 15:10	But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.