2 Corinthians

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6.3.1
We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
6.4.1
but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
6.5.1
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6.6.1
in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
6.7.1
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
6.8.1
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
6.9.1
as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
6.10.1
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
6.11.1
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
6.12.1
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
6.13.1
Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.
6.14.1
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?
6.15.1
What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
6.16.1
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
6.17.1
Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
6.18.1
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."
7.1.1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
7.2.1
Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
7.3.1
I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
7.4.1
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
7.5.1
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.
7.6.1
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
7.7.1
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.
7.8.1
For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.
7.9.1
I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
7.10.1
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
7.11.1
For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
7.12.1
So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
7.13.1
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
7.14.1
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
7.15.1
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
7.16.1
I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
8.1.1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
8.2.1
how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
8.3.1
For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
8.4.1
begging us with much entreaty in regard to this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
8.5.1
This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
8.6.1
So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
8.7.1
But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
8.8.1
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
8.9.1
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
8.10.1
I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
8.11.1
But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
8.12.1
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
8.13.1
For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
8.14.1
but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
8.15.1
As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."
8.16.1
But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
8.17.1
For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
8.18.1
We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the gospel is known through all the assemblies.
8.19.1
Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
8.20.1
We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
8.21.1
Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
8.22.1
We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
8.23.1
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
8.24.1
Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
9.1.1
It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
9.2.1
for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
9.3.1
But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
9.4.1
so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be put to shame in this confident boasting.
9.5.1
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
9.6.1
Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
9.7.1
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
9.8.1
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
9.9.1
As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."
9.10.1
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
9.11.1
you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
9.12.1
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;
9.13.1
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;
9.14.1
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
9.15.1
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
10.1.1
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.
10.2.1
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
10.3.1
For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;
10.4.1
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
10.5.1
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
10.6.1
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
10.7.1
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.
10.8.1
For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be put to shame,
10.9.1
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
10.10.1
For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
10.11.1
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
10.12.1
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
10.13.1
But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
10.14.1
For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the gospel of Christ,
10.15.1
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
10.16.1
so as to preach the gospel even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
10.17.1
But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
10.18.1
For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
11.1.1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
11.2.1
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
11.3.1
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
11.4.1
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
11.5.1
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
11.6.1
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
11.7.1
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's gospel free of charge?
11.8.1
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
11.9.1
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
11.10.1
As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11.11.1
Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

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