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{Corinthians-2 1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with
all the saints which are in all Achaia: {Corinthians-2 1:2} Grace be to you and
peace
from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. {Corinthians-2 1:3}
Blessed
[be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God of all comfort; {Corinthians-2 1:4} Who comforteth us in
all our
tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any
trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
{Corinthians-2 1:5} For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation
also aboundeth by Christ. {Corinthians-2 1:6} And whether we be afflicted, [it
is]
for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring
of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be
comforted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation. {Corinthians-2 1:7} And
our
hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation. {Corinthians-2 1:8} For we
would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us
in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch
that we despaired even of life: {Corinthians-2 1:9} But we had the sentence of
death
in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which
raiseth the dead: {Corinthians-2 1:10} Who delivered us from so great a death,
and
doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us; ]{Corinthians-2
1:11} Ye
also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift [bestowed]
upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our
behalf. {Corinthians-2 1:12} For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by
the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more
abundantly to you-ward. {Corinthians-2 1:13} For we write none other things unto
you,
than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even
to the end; {Corinthians-2 1:14} As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that
we are
your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. {Corinthians-2 1:15} And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you
before,
that ye might have a second benefit; {Corinthians-2 1:16} And to pass by you
into
Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to
be brought on my way toward Judaea. {Corinthians-2 1:17} When I therefore was
thus
minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose
according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay
nay? {Corinthians-2 1:18} But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not
yea and
nay. {Corinthians-2 1:19} For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached
among
you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and
nay, but in him was yea. {Corinthians-2 1:20} For all the promises of God in him
[are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. {Corinthians-2 1:21}
Now he
which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is]
God; {Corinthians-2 1:22} Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts. {Corinthians-2 1:23} Moreover I call God for a record upon
my
soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. {Corinthians-2 1:24} Not
for
that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for
by faith ye stand. {Corinthians-2 2:1} But I determined this with myself, that I would not come
again
to you in heaviness. {Corinthians-2 2:2} For if I make you sorry, who is he then
that
maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? {Corinthians-2 2:3} And
I
wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from
them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my
joy is [the joy] of you all. {Corinthians-2 2:4} For out of much affliction and
anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should
be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more
abundantly unto you. {Corinthians-2 2:5} But if any have caused grief, he hath
not
grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. {Corinthians-2 2:6}
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which [was inflicted] of
many. {Corinthians-2 2:7} So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive
[him,]
and comfort [him,] lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with
overmuch sorrow. {Corinthians-2 2:8} Wherefore I beseech you that ye would
confirm
[your] love toward him.
{Corinthians-2 2:9} For to this end also did I write,
that I
might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
{Corinthians-2 2:10} To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I
forgave
any thing, to whom I forgave [it,] for your sakes [forgave I it] in the
person of Christ; {Corinthians-2 2:11} Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:
for
we are not ignorant of his devices. {Corinthians-2 2:12} Furthermore, when I
came to
Troas to [preach] Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the
Lord, {Corinthians-2 2:13} I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus
my
brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
Macedonia. {Corinthians-2 2:14} Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth
us to
triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by
us in every place. {Corinthians-2 2:15} For we are unto God a sweet savour of
Christ,
in them that are saved, and in them that perish: {Corinthians-2 2:16} To the one
[we
are] the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of
life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these things? {Corinthians-2 2:17}
For we
are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity,
but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. {Corinthians-2 3:1} Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
[others,] epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation
from you? {Corinthians-2 3:2} Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known
and
read of all men: {Corinthians-2 3:3} [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared
to be
the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with
the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
tables of the heart. {Corinthians-2 3:4} And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
{Corinthians-2 3:5} Not
that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency [is] of God; {Corinthians-2 3:6} Who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:
for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
{Corinthians-2 3:7}
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven
in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance; which glory was to be done away:
{Corinthians-2 3:8} How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
glorious? {Corinthians-2 3:9} For if the ministration of condemnation [be]
glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
{Corinthians-2 3:10} For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. {Corinthians-2 3:11} For if that
which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is]
glorious. {Corinthians-2 3:12} Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech:
{Corinthians-2 3:13}
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end
of that which is abolished:
{Corinthians-2 3:14} But their minds were
blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading
of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ. {Corinthians-2 3:15}
But
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
{Corinthians-2 3:16}
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall
be taken away.
{Corinthians-2 3:17} Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the
Spirit of
the Lord [is,] there [is] liberty. {Corinthians-2 3:18} But we all, with open
face
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the
same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. {Corinthians-2 4:1} Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, we faint not; {Corinthians-2 4:2} But have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to
every man's conscience in the sight of God. {Corinthians-2 4:3} But if our
gospel be
hid, it is hid to them that are lost: {Corinthians-2 4:4} In whom the god of
this
world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them. {Corinthians-2 4:5} For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. {Corinthians-2 4:6} For God,
who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. {Corinthians-2 4:7} But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. {Corinthians-2 4:8} [We
are]
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not
in despair; {Corinthians-2 4:9} Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed; {Corinthians-2 4:10} Always bearing about in the body the dying of
the
Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
body. {Corinthians-2 4:11} For we which live are alway delivered unto death for
Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
mortal flesh. {Corinthians-2 4:12} So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
{Corinthians-2 4:13}
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed,
and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
{Corinthians-2 4:14} Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall
raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you. {Corinthians-2 4:15}
For
all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through
the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. {Corinthians-2 4:16} For
which
cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward
[man] is renewed day by day. {Corinthians-2 4:17} For our light affliction,
which is
but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal
weight of glory; {Corinthians-2 4:18} While we look not at the things which are
seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen
[are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal. {Corinthians-2 5:1} For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens. {Corinthians-2 5:2} For in this we groan,
earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: {Corinthians-2
5:3}
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. {Corinthians-2 5:4} For
we
that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
up of life. {Corinthians-2 5:5} Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame
thing
[is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. {Corinthians-2
5:6}
Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at
home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: {Corinthians-2 5:7} (For we walk
by
faith, not by sight:) {Corinthians-2 5:8} We are confident, [I say,] and willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
{Corinthians-2 5:9} Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may
be
accepted of him.
{Corinthians-2 5:10}
For we
must all appear before the judgment
seat
of Christ;
that
every one may receive
the
things [done] in [his] body,
according to
that
he hath done,
whether [it be]
good or
bad.
{Corinthians-2 5:11}
Knowing
therefore the
terror
of the Lord,
we persuade men;
but we are
made manifest unto God;
and I
trust also
are made manifest
in your
consciences.
{Corinthians-2 5:12} For we commend not ourselves again
unto
you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have
somewhat to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
{Corinthians-2 5:13} For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or
whether
we be sober, [it is] for your cause. {Corinthians-2 5:14} For the love of Christ
constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then
were all dead: {Corinthians-2 5:15} And [that] he died for all, that they which
live
should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for
them, and rose again. {Corinthians-2 5:16} Wherefore henceforth know we no man
after
the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
henceforth know we [him] no more.
{Corinthians-2
5:17} Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature:
old things are
passed away, behold,
all things are
become new.
{Corinthians-2 5:18} And all things [are] of God, who
hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation; {Corinthians-2 5:19} To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto
them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {Corinthians-2
5:20} Now
then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by
us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. {Corinthians-2
5:21}
For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. {Corinthians-2 6:1} We then, [as] workers together [with him,] beseech [you]
also
that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
{Corinthians-2 6:2}
(For he saith, I
have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I
succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is]
the day of salvation.)
{Corinthians-2 6:3} Giving no offence in any thing, that
the
ministry be not blamed: {Corinthians-2 6:4} But in all [things] approving
ourselves
as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses, {Corinthians-2 6:5} In stripes, in imprisonments, in
tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; {Corinthians-2 6:6} By pureness,
by
knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned, {Corinthians-2 6:7} By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the
armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, {Corinthians-2 6:8}
By
honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and
[yet] true; {Corinthians-2 6:9} As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and,
behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; {Corinthians-2 6:10} As
sorrowful, yet
alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and
[yet] possessing all things. {Corinthians-2 6:11} O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart
is
enlarged. {Corinthians-2 6:12} Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are
straitened in
your own bowels. {Corinthians-2 6:13} Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak
as
unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged. {Corinthians-2 6:14} Be ye not
unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
{Corinthians-2 6:15} And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath
he
that believeth with an infidel?
{Corinthians-2 6:16}
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the
temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
{Corinthians-2 6:17} Wherefore come
out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith
the Lord,
and touch not
the unclean thing;
and I will receive
you,
{Corinthians-2 6:18}
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons
and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
{Corinthians-2 6:18}
And will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be my sons
and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
{Corinthians-2 7:1} Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God. {Corinthians-2 7:2} Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no
man,
we have defrauded no man. {Corinthians-2 7:3} I speak not [this] to condemn
[you:]
for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with
[you. ]{Corinthians-2 7:4} Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great
[is] my
glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all
our tribulation. {Corinthians-2 7:5} For, when we were come into Macedonia, our
flesh
had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without [were]
fightings, within [were] fears. {Corinthians-2 7:6} Nevertheless God, that
comforteth
those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; {Corinthians-2
7:7}
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was
comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning,
your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. {Corinthians-2 7:8}
For
though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did
repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry,
though [it were] but for a season. {Corinthians-2 7:9} Now I rejoice, not that
ye
were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made
sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in
nothing. {Corinthians-2 7:10} For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation
not to
be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. {Corinthians-2 7:11}
For
behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what
carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea,
[what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea,
[what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved
yourselves to be clear in this matter. {Corinthians-2 7:12} Wherefore, though I
wrote
unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for
his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight
of God might appear unto you. {Corinthians-2 7:13} Therefore we were comforted
in
your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of
Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. {Corinthians-2 7:14} For if
I
have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake
all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which [I made] before
Titus, is found a truth. {Corinthians-2 7:15} And his inward affection is more
abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all,
how with fear and trembling ye received him. {Corinthians-2 7:16} I rejoice
therefore
that I have confidence in you in all [things. ]{Corinthians-2 8:1} Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; {Corinthians-2 8:2} How that in a great
trial
of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty
abounded unto the riches of their liberality. {Corinthians-2 8:3} For to [their]
power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing
of themselves; {Corinthians-2 8:4} Praying us with much intreaty that we would
receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering
to the saints. {Corinthians-2 8:5} And [this they did,] not as we hoped, but
first
gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
{Corinthians-2 8:6} Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he
would
also finish in you the same grace also. {Corinthians-2 8:7} Therefore, as ye
abound
in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all
diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace
also. {Corinthians-2 8:8} I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the
forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. {Corinthians-2
8:9}
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty
might be rich. {Corinthians-2 8:10} And herein I give [my] advice: for this is
expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to
be forward a year ago. {Corinthians-2 8:11} Now therefore perform the doing [of
it;]
that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a
performance also out of that which ye have. {Corinthians-2 8:12} For if there be
first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath,
[and] not according to that he hath not. {Corinthians-2 8:13} For [I mean] not
that
other men be eased, and ye burdened: {Corinthians-2 8:14} But by an equality,
[that]
now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that
their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be
equality:
{Corinthians-2 8:15}
As it is written, He that had gathered
much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no
lack.
{Corinthians-2
8:16} But
thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of
Titus for you. {Corinthians-2 8:17} For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but
being
more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. {Corinthians-2 8:18} And we
have
sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all
the churches; {Corinthians-2 8:19} And not [that] only, but who was also chosen
of
the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered
by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready
mind: {Corinthians-2 8:20} Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this
abundance which is administered by us:
{Corinthians-2 8:21}
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in
the sight of men.
{Corinthians-2 8:22} And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have
oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent,
upon the great confidence which [I have] in you. {Corinthians-2 8:23} Whether
[any do
enquire] of Titus, [he is] my partner and fellowhelper concerning you:
or our brethren [be enquired of, they are] the messengers of the
churches, [and] the glory of Christ. {Corinthians-2 8:24} Wherefore shew ye to
them,
and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on
your behalf. {Corinthians-2 9:1} For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
superfluous for me to write to you: {Corinthians-2 9:2} For I know the
forwardness of
your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia
was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. {Corinthians-2 9:3}
Yet
have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in
this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: {Corinthians-2 9:4} Lest haply if
they
of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say
not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. {Corinthians-2 9:5}
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof
ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of]
bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.
{Corinthians-2 9:6}
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
{Corinthians-2 9:7} Every man according
as
he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give;] not grudgingly, or of
necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
{Corinthians-2 9:8}
And
God [is]
able to
make all grace abound toward you; that
ye,
always having all
sufficiency in
all [things,] may
abound to every
good work:
{Corinthians-2 9:9}
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the
poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
{Corinthians-2 9:10} Now he that ministereth
seed
to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your
seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) {Corinthians-2 9:11}
Being
enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us
thanksgiving to God. {Corinthians-2 9:12} For the administration of this service
not
only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God; {Corinthians-2 9:13} Whiles by the experiment of this
ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection into the
gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and
unto all [men; ]{Corinthians-2 9:14} And by their prayer for you, which long
after
you for the exceeding grace of God in you. {Corinthians-2 9:15} Thanks [be] unto
God
for his unspeakable gift. {Corinthians-2 10:1} Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and
gentleness
of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am
bold toward you: {Corinthians-2 10:2} But I beseech [you,] that I may not be
bold
when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold
against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
{Corinthians-2 10:3} For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
flesh:
{Corinthians-2 10:4} (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but
mighty
through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) {Corinthians-2 10:5} Casting
down
imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ; {Corinthians-2 10:6} And having in a readiness to revenge
all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. {Corinthians-2 10:7} Do ye look
on
things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that
he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is]
Christ's, even so [are] we Christ's. {Corinthians-2 10:8} For though I should
boast
somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for
edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
{Corinthians-2 10:9} That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
{Corinthians-2 10:10} For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful;
but
[his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible. {Corinthians-2
10:11}
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are present.
{Corinthians-2 10:12} For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring
themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves,
are not wise. {Corinthians-2 10:13} But we will not boast of things without
[our]
measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath
distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. {Corinthians-2 10:14} For
we
stretch not ourselves beyond [our measure,] as though we reached not
unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in [preaching] the
gospel of Christ: {Corinthians-2 10:15} Not boasting of things without [our]
measure,
[that is,] of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is
increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule
abundantly, {Corinthians-2 10:16} To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond
you,
[and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our
hand.
{Corinthians-2 10:17}
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
{Corinthians-2 10:18}
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commendeth. {Corinthians-2 11:1} Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly:
and indeed bear with me. {Corinthians-2 11:2} For I am jealous over you with
godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present
[you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.
{Corinthians-2 11:3}
But
I fear, lest by any
means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtilty, so your minds
should be corrupted from
the simplicity
that is in Christ.
{Corinthians-2 11:4}
For
if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached,
or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or
another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
[him. ]{Corinthians-2 11:5} For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very
chiefest
apostles. {Corinthians-2 11:6} But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in
knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all
things. {Corinthians-2 11:7} Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that
ye
might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God
freely? {Corinthians-2 11:8} I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them,] to
do
you service. {Corinthians-2 11:9} And when I was present with you, and wanted, I
was
chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren
which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept
myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep [myself.
]{Corinthians-2 11:10} As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of
this
boasting in the regions of Achaia. {Corinthians-2 11:11} Wherefore? because I
love
you not? God knoweth. {Corinthians-2 11:12} But what I do, that I will do, that
I may
cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they
glory, they may be found even as we. {Corinthians-2 11:13} For such [are] false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ. {Corinthians-2 11:14} And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into
an angel of light. {Corinthians-2 11:15} Therefore [it is] no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose
end shall be according to their works. {Corinthians-2 11:16} I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet
as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. {Corinthians-2 11:17}
That
which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were
foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. {Corinthians-2 11:18} Seeing that
many
glory after the flesh, I will glory also. {Corinthians-2 11:19} For ye suffer
fools
gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise. {Corinthians-2 11:20} For ye suffer, if
a
man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you,] if a man take [of
you,] if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. {Corinthians-2
11:21} I
speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit
whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. {Corinthians-2
11:22}
Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they
the seed of Abraham? so [am] I. {Corinthians-2 11:23} Are they ministers of
Christ?
(I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. {Corinthians-2 11:24} Of
the
Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. {Corinthians-2 11:25}
Thrice was
I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a
night and a day I have been in the deep; {Corinthians-2 11:26} [In] journeyings
often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by
[mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the
city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in]
perils among false brethren; {Corinthians-2 11:27} In weariness and painfulness,
in
watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness. {Corinthians-2 11:28} Beside those things that are without, that
which
cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. {Corinthians-2 11:29} Who is
weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? {Corinthians-2 11:30}
If I
must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine
infirmities. {Corinthians-2 11:31} The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which
is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. {Corinthians-2 11:32} In
Damascus
the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with
a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: {Corinthians-2 11:33} And through a window
in a
basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. {Corinthians-2 12:1} It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come
to
visions and revelations of the Lord.
{Corinthians-2 12:2}
I knew a man in Christ
above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body
, I cannot
tell;
or whether
out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one
caught up to
the third
heaven.
{Corinthians-2 12:3} And I knew such a man,
(whether
in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
{Corinthians-2
12:4}How that he was
caught up into paradise,
and heard unspeakable words,
which
it
is not lawful
for a man
to
utter.
{Corinthians-2 12:5} Of such an one
will I
glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. {Corinthians-2
12:6}
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will
say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should think of me
above that which he seeth me [to be,] or [that] he heareth of me.
{Corinthians-2 12:7} And lest I should be exalted above measure through the
abundance
of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure. {Corinthians-2 12:8} For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it
might depart from me. {Corinthians-2 12:9} And he said unto me, My grace is
sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most
gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power
of Christ may rest upon me. {Corinthians-2 12:10} Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. {Corinthians-2 12:11} I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for
I
ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the
very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. {Corinthians-2 12:12} Truly the
signs of
an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and
wonders, and mighty deeds. {Corinthians-2 12:13} For what is it wherein ye were
inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not
burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. {Corinthians-2 12:14} Behold, the
third
time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you:
for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for
the parents, but the parents for the children. {Corinthians-2 12:15} And I will
very
gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love
you, the less I be loved. {Corinthians-2 12:16} But be it so, I did not burden
you:
nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. {Corinthians-2 12:17} Did I
make
a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? {Corinthians-2 12:18} I
desired
Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you?
walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?
{Corinthians-2 12:19} Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we
speak
before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your
edifying. {Corinthians-2 12:20} For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find
you
such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would
not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings,
whisperings, swellings, tumults: {Corinthians-2 12:21} [And] lest, when I come
again,
my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which
have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and
fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is
the third time I am coming to you.
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
{Corinthians-2 13:2}
I
told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second
time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have
sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
{Corinthians-2 13:3} Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to
you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. {Corinthians-2 13:4} For though he
was
crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we
also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God
toward you. {Corinthians-2 13:5} Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;
prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus
Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? {Corinthians-2 13:6} But I trust that
ye
shall know that we are not reprobates. {Corinthians-2 13:7} Now I pray to God
that ye
do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do
that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. {Corinthians-2 13:8} For we
can do
nothing against the truth, but for the truth. {Corinthians-2 13:9} For we are
glad,
when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your
perfection. {Corinthians-2 13:10} Therefore I write these things being absent,
lest
being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the
Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. {Corinthians-2 13:11} Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good
comfort,
be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be
with you. {Corinthians-2 13:12} Greet one another with an holy kiss. {Corinthians-2 13:13} All the saints salute you.
{Corinthians-2 13:14} The grace
of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost,
[be] with you all. Amen.
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