2Cor 11:2 Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2

2: I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. For I promised you as a pure bride to one husband, Christ.

I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.
I will be faithful to you and make you mine, and you will finally know me as LORD.

to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.
He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

for your Creator will be your husband. The LORD Almighty is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth.

They may choose their wives only from among the virgins of Israel or the widows of the priests. They may not marry other widows or divorced women.

"The high priest must marry a virgin.
He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution. She must be a virgin from his own clan,
that he may not dishonor his descendants among the members of his clan, because I, the LORD, have made him holy."

So everywhere we go, we tell everyone about Christ. We warn them and teach them with all the wisdom God has given us, for we want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ.

The bride will go where the bridegroom is. A bridegroom's friend rejoices with him. I am the bridegroom's friend, and I am filled with joy at his success.

God knows how much I love you and long for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus.

For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good News to you.

Those false teachers who are so anxious to win your favor are not doing it for your good. They are trying to shut you off from me so that you will pay more attention to them.
Now it's wonderful if you are eager to do good, and especially when I am not with you.
But oh, my dear children! I feel as if I am going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until Christ is fully developed in your lives.

So they called Rebekah. "Are you willing to go with this man?" they asked her. And she replied, "Yes, I will go."
So they said good-bye to Rebekah and sent her away with Abraham's servant and his men. The woman who had been Rebekah's childhood nurse went along with her.
They blessed her with this blessing as she parted: "Our sister, may you become the mother of many millions! May your descendants overcome all their enemies."
Then Rebekah and her servants mounted the camels and left with Abraham's servant.
Meanwhile, Isaac, whose home was in the Negev, had returned from Beer-lahairoi.

So this is the point: The law no longer holds you in its power, because you died to its power when you died with Christ on the cross. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, you can produce good fruit, that is, good deeds for God.

We know that the same God who raised our Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself along with you.

Never again will you be called the Godforsaken City or the Desolate Land. Your new name will be the City of God's Delight and the Bride of God, for the LORD delights in you and will claim you as his own.
Your children will care for you with joy, O Jerusalem, just as a young man cares for his bride. Then God will rejoice over you as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your homeland far away.
For your royal husband delights in your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.

One day Abraham said to the man in charge of his household, who was his oldest servant,
"Swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not let my son marry one of these local Canaanite women.
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."
The servant asked, "But suppose I can't find a young woman who will travel so far from home? May I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives?"

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