Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 2 Corinthians 7:11, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Romans 14:18
For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
- 1 Timothy 5:21
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing…
- 2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- Psalms 2:11
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
- Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
- 2 Corinthians 7:7
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent…
- Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
- Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Hebrews 12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
- 1 Peter 2:2
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- 1 Corinthians 5:13
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
- Jude 1:23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
More to meet God in 2 Corinthians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.