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2CO-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:
2CO-1:2 Grace [be] to you and peace
from God our Father, and [from] the Lord
Jesus Christ.
2CO-1:3 Blessed [be] God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies, and the God of all
comfort;
2CO-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.
2CO-1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ
abound in us, so our consolation also
aboundeth by Christ.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-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:
2CO-1:10 Who delivered us from so great
a death, and doth deliver: in whom we
trust that he will yet deliver [us];
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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;
2CO-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.
2CO-1:15 And in this confidence I was
minded to come unto you before, that ye
might have a second benefit;
2CO-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.
2CO-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?
2CO-1:18 But [as] God [is] true, our
word toward you was not yea and nay.
2CO-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.
2CO-1:20 For all the promises of God in
him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the
glory of God by us.
2CO-1:21 Now he which stablisheth us
with you in Christ, and hath anointed
us, [is] God;
2CO-1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and
given the earnest of the Spirit in our
hearts.
2CO-1:23 Moreover I call God for a
record upon my soul, that to spare you I
came not as yet unto Corinth.
2CO-1:24 Not for that we have dominion
over your faith, but are helpers of your
joy: for by faith ye stand.
2CO-2:1 But I determined this with
myself, that I would not come again to
you in heaviness.
2CO-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?
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-2:5 But if any have caused grief,
he hath not grieved me, but in part:
that I may not overcharge you all.
2CO-2:6 Sufficient to such a man [is]
this punishment, which [was inflicted]
of many.
2CO-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.
2CO-2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye
would confirm [your] love toward him.
2CO-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.
2CO-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;
2CO-2:11 Lest Satan should get an
advantage of us: for we are not ignorant
of his devices.
2CO-2:12 Furthermore, when I came to
Troas to [preach] Christ's gospel, and a
door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-2:15 For we are unto God a sweet
savour of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish:
2CO-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?
2CO-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.
2CO-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?
2CO-3:2 Ye are our epistle written in
our hearts, known and read of all men:
2CO-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 fleshly tables of the heart.
2CO-3:4 And such trust have we through
Christ to God-ward:
2CO-3:5 Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think any thing as of
ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of
God;
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-3:8 How shall not the ministration
of the spirit be rather glorious?
2CO-3:9 For if the ministration of
condemnation [be] glory, much more doth
the ministration of righteousness exceed
in glory.
2CO-3:10 For even that which was made
glorious had no glory in this respect,
by reason of the glory that excelleth.
2CO-3:11 For if that which is done away
[was] glorious, much more that which
remaineth [is] glorious.
2CO-3:12 Seeing then that we have such
hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2CO-3:13 And not as Moses, [which] put
a veil over his face, that the children
of Israel could not stedfastly look to
the end of that which is abolished:
2CO-3:14 But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same
veil untaken away in the reading of the
old testament; which [veil] is done away
in Christ.
2CO-3:15 But even unto this day, when
Moses is read, the veil is upon their
heart.
2CO-3:16 Nevertheless when it shall
turn to the Lord, the veil shall be
taken away.
2CO-3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord [is],
there [is] liberty.
2CO-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.
2CO-4:1 Therefore seeing we have this
ministry, as we have received mercy, we
faint not;
2CO-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.
2CO-4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is
hid to them that are lost:
2CO-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.
2CO-4:5 For we preach not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves
your servants for Jesus' sake.
2CO-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.
2CO-4:7 But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellency of
the power may be of God, and not of us.
2CO-4:8 [We are] troubled on every
side, yet not distressed; [we are]
perplexed, but not in despair;
2CO-4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken;
cast down, but not destroyed;
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-4:12 So then death worketh in us,
but life in you.
2CO-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;
2CO-4:14 Knowing that he which raised
up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also
by Jesus, and shall present [us] with
you.
2CO-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.
2CO-4:16 For which cause we faint not;
but though our outward man perish, yet
the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
2CO-4:17 For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment, worketh for
us a far more exceeding [and] eternal
weight of glory;
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon with our
house which is from heaven:
2CO-5:3 If so be that being clothed we
shall not be found naked.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-5:6 Therefore [we are] always
confident, knowing that, whilst we are
at home in the body, we are absent from
the Lord:
2CO-5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by
sight:)
2CO-5:8 We are confident, [I say], and
willing rather to be absent from the
body, and to be present with the Lord.
2CO-5:9 Wherefore we labour, that,
whether present or absent, we may be
accepted of him.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-5:13 For whether we be beside
ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we
be sober, [it is] for your cause.
2CO-5:14 For the love of Christ
constraineth us; because we thus judge,
that if one died for all, then were all
dead:
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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;
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-6:1 We then, [as] workers together
[with him], beseech [you] also that ye
receive not the grace of God in vain.
2CO-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.)
2CO-6:3 Giving no offence in any thing,
that the ministry be not blamed:
2CO-6:4 But in all [things] approving
ourselves as the ministers of God, in
much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses,
2CO-6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments,
in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in
fastings;
2CO-6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by
longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy
Ghost, by love unfeigned,
2CO-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,
2CO-6:8 By honour and dishonour, by
evil report and good report: as
deceivers, and [yet] true;
2CO-6:9 As unknown, and [yet] well
known; as dying, and, behold, we live;
as chastened, and not killed;
2CO-6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway
rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and [yet]
possessing all things.
2CO-6:11 O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth
is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
2CO-6:12 Ye are not straitened in us,
but ye are straitened in your own
bowels.
2CO-6:13 Now for a recompense in the
same, (I speak as unto [my] children,)
be ye also enlarged.
2CO-6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath
light with darkness?
2CO-6:15 And what concord hath Christ
with Belial? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?
2CO-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.
2CO-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,
2CO-6:18 And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
2CO-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.
2CO-7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no
man, we have corrupted no man, we have
defrauded no man.
2CO-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].
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-7:6 Nevertheless God, that
comforteth those that are cast down,
comforted us by the coming of Titus;
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-7:10 For godly sorrow worketh
repentance to salvation not to be
repented of: but the sorrow of the world
worketh death.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-7:16 I rejoice therefore that I
have confidence in you in all [things].
2CO-8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you
to wit of the grace of God bestowed on
the churches of Macedonia;
2CO-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.
2CO-8:3 For to [their] power, I bear
record, yea, and beyond [their] power
[they were] willing of themselves;
2CO-8:4 Praying us with much entreaty
that we would receive the gift, and
[take upon us] the fellowship of the
ministering to the saints.
2CO-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.
2CO-8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus,
that as he had begun, so he would also
finish in you the same grace also.
2CO-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.
2CO-8:8 I speak not by commandment, but
by occasion of the forwardness of
others, and to prove the sincerity of
your love.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-8:13 For [I mean] not that other
men be eased, and ye burdened:
2CO-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:
2CO-8:15 As it is written, He that [had
gathered] much had nothing over; and he
that [had gathered] little had no lack.
2CO-8:16 But thanks [be] to God, which
put the same earnest care into the heart
of Titus for you.
2CO-8:17 For indeed he accepted the
exhortation; but being more forward, of
his own accord he went unto you.
2CO-8:18 And we have sent with him the
brother, whose praise [is] in the gospel
throughout all the churches;
2CO-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:
2CO-8:20 Avoiding this, that no man
should blame us in this abundance which
is administered by us:
2CO-8:21 Providing for honest things,
not only in the sight of the Lord, but
also in the sight of men.
2CO-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.
2CO-8:23 Whether [any do inquire] of
Titus, [he is] my partner and
fellowhelper concerning you: or our
brethren [be inquired of, they are] the
messengers of the churches, [and] the
glory of Christ.
2CO-8:24 Wherefore show ye to them, and
before the churches, the proof of your
love, and of our boasting on your
behalf.
2CO-9:1 For as touching the ministering
to the saints, it is superfluous for me
to write to you:
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-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.
2CO-9:5 Therefore I thought it
necessary to exhort the brethren, that
they would go before unto you, and make
up before hand your bounty, whereof ye
had notice before, that the same might
be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and
not as [of] covetousness.
2CO-9:6 But this [I say], He which
soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-9:9 (As it is written, He hath
dispersed abroad; he hath given to the
poor: his righteousness remaineth for
ever.
2CO-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;)
2CO-9:11 Being enriched in every thing
to all bountifulness, which causeth
through us thanksgiving to God.
2CO-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;
2CO-9:13 Whiles by the experiment of
this ministration they glorify God for
your professed subjection unto the
gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal
distribution unto them, and unto all
[men];
2CO-9:14 And by their prayer for you,
which long after you for the exceeding
grace of God in you.
2CO-9:15 Thanks [be] unto God for his
unspeakable gift.
2CO-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:
2CO-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.
2CO-10:3 For though we walk in the
flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2CO-10:4 (For the weapons of our
warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling down of
strong holds;)
2CO-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;
2CO-10:6 And having in a readiness to
revenge all disobedience, when your
obedience is fulfilled.
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-10:9 That I may not seem as if I
would terrify you by letters.
2CO-10:10 For [his] letters, say they,
[are] weighty and powerful; but [his]
bodily presence [is] weak, and [his]
speech contemptible.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-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,
2CO-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.
2CO-10:17 But he that glorieth, let him
glory in the Lord.
2CO-10:18 For not he that commendeth
himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commendeth.
2CO-11:1 Would to God ye could bear
with me a little in [my] folly: and
indeed bear with me.
2CO-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.
2CO-11:3 But I fear, lest by any means,
as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtlety, so your minds should be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ.
2CO-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].
2CO-11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit
behind the very chiefest apostles.
2CO-11:6 But though [I be] rude in
speech, yet not in knowledge; but we
have been thoroughly made manifest among
you in all things.
2CO-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?
2CO-11:8 I robbed other churches,
taking wages [of them], to do you
service.
2CO-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].
2CO-11:10 As the truth of Christ is in
me, no man shall stop me of this
boasting in the regions of Achaia.
2CO-11:11 Wherefore? because I love you
not? God knoweth.
2CO-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.
2CO-11:13 For such [are] false
apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ.
2CO-11:14 And no marvel; for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of
light.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-11:17 That which I speak, I speak
[it] not after the Lord, but as it were
foolishly, in this confidence of
boasting.
2CO-11:18 Seeing that many glory after
the flesh, I will glory also.
2CO-11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly,
seeing ye [yourselves] are wise.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-11:22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I.
Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they
the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.
2CO-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.
2CO-11:24 Of the Jews five times
received I forty [stripes] save one.
2CO-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;
2CO-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;
2CO-11:27 In weariness and painfulness,
in watchings often, in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness.
2CO-11:28 Beside those things that are
without, that which cometh upon me
daily, the care of all the churches.
2CO-11:29 Who is weak, and I am not
weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
2CO-11:30 If I must needs glory, I will
glory of the things which concern mine
infirmities.
2CO-11:31 The God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for
evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2CO-11:32 In Damascus the governor
under Aretas the king kept the city of
the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous
to apprehend me:
2CO-11:33 And through a window in a
basket was I let down by the wall, and
escaped his hands.
2CO-12:1 It is not expedient for me
doubtless to glory. I will come to
visions and revelations of the Lord.
2CO-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.
2CO-12:3 And I knew such a man,
(whether in the body, or out of the
body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
2CO-12:4 How that he was caught up into
paradise, and heard unspeakable words,
which it is not lawful for a man to
utter.
2CO-12:5 Of such an one will I glory:
yet of myself I will not glory, but in
mine infirmities.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-12:8 For this thing I besought the
Lord thrice, that it might depart from
me.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle
were wrought among you in all patience,
in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-12:16 But be it so, I did not
burden you: nevertheless, being crafty,
I caught you with guile.
2CO-12:17 Did I make a gain of you by
any of them whom I sent unto you?
2CO-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?
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-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:
2CO-13:3 Since ye seek a proof of
Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward
is not weak, but is mighty in you.
2CO-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.
2CO-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?
2CO-13:6 But I trust that ye shall know
that we are not reprobates.
2CO-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.
2CO-13:8 For we can do nothing against
the truth, but for the truth.
2CO-13:9 For we are glad, when we are
weak, and ye are strong: and this also
we wish, [even] your perfection.
2CO-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.
2CO-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.
2CO-13:12 Greet one another with an
holy kiss.
2CO-13:13 All the saints salute you.
2CO-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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