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2 Corinthians 12:19 (NIV)

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.

2 Corinthians 12:20 (NIV)

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

2 Corinthians 12:21 (NIV)

I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.

2 Samuel 12:1 (NIV)

The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 12:2 (NIV)

The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle,

2 Samuel 12:3 (NIV)

but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12:4 (NIV)

“Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”

2 Samuel 12:5 (NIV)

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die!

2 Samuel 12:6 (NIV)

He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

2 Samuel 12:7 (NIV)

Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:8 (NIV)

I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.

2 Samuel 12:9 (NIV)

Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 12:10 (NIV)

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

2 Samuel 12:11 (NIV)

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 12:12 (NIV)

You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’ ”

2 Samuel 12:13 (NIV)

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord .” Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.

2 Samuel 12:14 (NIV)

But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord , the son born to you will die.”

2 Samuel 12:15 (NIV)

After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

2 Samuel 12:16 (NIV)

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground.

2 Samuel 12:17 (NIV)

The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

2 Samuel 12:18 (NIV)

On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”