2 Corinthians 7:5
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For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest: but we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within.

when.

2 Corinthians 1:16,17 And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

Acts 20:1 And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the disciples and exhorting them, took his leave and set forward to go into Macedonia.

1 Corinthians 16:5 Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.

our.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:23-30 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

Genesis 8:9 But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.

Isaiah 33:12 And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

Jeremiah 8:18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

Jeremiah 45:3 Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest.

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. . . .

troubled.

2 Corinthians 4:8 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute.

Job 18:11 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Jeremiah 6:25 Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

without.

Deuteronomy 32:25 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

1 Corinthians 15:31 I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

fears.

2 Corinthians 2:3,9 And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

2 Corinthians 12:20,21 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. . . .

Galatians 4:11,19,20 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.

Context
Paul's Joy in the Corinthians
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. 5For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest: but we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within. 6But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:25
Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

Romans 15:26
For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem.

2 Corinthians 2:13
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 4:8
In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute.

Lexicon
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

[when]
Καὶ (Kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

we
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

arrived
ἐλθόντων (elthontōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2064: To come, go.

in
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Macedonia,
Μακεδονίαν (Makedonian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3109: (Hebrew), Macedonia, a Roman province north of Achaia (Greece). From Makedon; Macedonia, a region of Greece.

our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

bodies
σὰρξ (sarx)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

had
ἔσχηκεν (eschēken)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

no
οὐδεμίαν (oudemian)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3762: No one, none, nothing.

rest,
ἄνεσιν (anesin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 425: Relief, remission, indulgence, freedom, rest. From aniemi; relaxation or relief.

but
ἀλλ’ (all’)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

we were pressed
θλιβόμενοι (thlibomenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2346: (a) I make narrow (strictly: by pressure); I press upon, (b) I persecute, press hard. Akin to the base of tribos; to crowd.

from
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

every [direction]—
παντὶ (panti)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

conflicts
μάχαι (machai)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3163: From machomai; a battle, i.e. controversy.

on the outside,
ἔξωθεν (exōthen)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 1855: (a) from outside, from without, (b) outside, both as adj. and prep; with article: the outside. From exo; external(-ly).

fears
φόβοι (phoboi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 5401: (a) fear, terror, alarm, (b) the object or cause of fear, (c) reverence, respect. From a primary phebomai; alarm or fright.

within.
ἔσωθεν (esōthen)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 2081: From eso; from inside; also used as equivalent to eso.


Additional Translations
For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

And indeed, of us having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; but we are being pressed in every way: conflicts on the outside, fears within.

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fights, within were fears.

For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but [we were] afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

For even when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief such as human nature craves. We were greatly harassed; there were conflicts without and fears within.

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without are fightings, within -- fears;
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