2 Corinthians 7:15
Good News Translation
And so his love for you grows stronger, as he remembers how all of you were ready to obey his instructions, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

New Revised Standard Version
And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of all of you, and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

Contemporary English Version
Titus loves all of you very much, especially when he remembers how you obeyed him and how you trembled with fear when you welcomed him.

New American Bible
And his heart goes out to you all the more, as he remembers the obedience of all of you, when you received him with fear and trembling.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.

inward affection is.

2 Corinthians 6:12 You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are straitened.

Genesis 43:30 And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.

1 Kings 3:26 But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it.

Songs 5:4 My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:12 Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

1 John 3:17 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

the obedience.

2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

2 Corinthians 10:5,6 And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ: . . .

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

with.

2 Corinthians 7:10,11 For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. . . .

Ezra 9:4 And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that were come from the captivity, and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice.

Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.

Job 21:6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Psalm 2:11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

Psalm 119:120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Hosea 13:1 When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

Acts 16:29 Then calling for a light, he went in: and trembling, fell down at the feet of Paul and Silas.

Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

Context
Paul's Joy in the Corinthians
14And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth. 15And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him. 16I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.…
Cross References
John 16:21
A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

2 Corinthians 2:9
For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

2 Corinthians 7:14
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