2 Corinthians 7:3
Good News Translation
I do not say this to condemn you; for, as I have said before, you are so dear to us that we are always together, whether we live or die.

New Revised Standard Version
I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

Contemporary English Version
I am not saying this to be hard on you. But, as I have said before, you will always be in our thoughts, whether we live or die.

New American Bible
I do not say this in condemnation, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, that we may die together and live together.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before that you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before that you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together.

to condemn.

2 Corinthians 7:12 Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you

2 Corinthians 2:4,5 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:10 Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the Lord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction.

1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children. . . .

for.

2 Corinthians 6:11,12 Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged. . . .

ye.

2 Corinthians 3:2 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

2 Corinthians 11:11 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.

2 Corinthians 12:15 But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less.

Philippians 1:8,9 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. . . .

to die.

Ruth 1:16,17 She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:8 So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.

Context
Paul's Joy in the Corinthians
2Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we have overreached no man. 3I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before that you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together. 4Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged.

Philippians 1:7
As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

2 Corinthians 7:2
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