2CO-11 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-12 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from
the Lord Jesus Christ .
2CO-13 Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort .
2CO-14 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-15 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our
consolation also aboundeth by Christ .
2CO-16 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-17 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-18 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-19 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we
should not trust in ourselves but in God which raiseth the dead .
2CO-110 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver
in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us .
2CO-111 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-112 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-113 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-114 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-115 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you
before that ye might have a second benefit .
2CO-116 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-117 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-118 But as God is true our word toward you was not yea and
nay .
2CO-119 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-120 For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him
Amen unto the glory of God by us .
2CO-121 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath
anointed us is God .
2CO-122 Who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts .
2CO-123 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul that to
spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth .
2CO-124 Not for that we have dominion over your faith but are
helpers of your joy for by faith ye stand .
* 2CO-21 But I determined this with myself that I would not
come again to you in heaviness .
2CO-22 For if I make you sorry who is he then that maketh me
glad but the same which is made sorry by me .
2CO-23 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-24 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-25 But if any have caused grief he hath not grieved me but
in part that I may not overcharge you all .
2CO-26 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment which was
inflicted of many .
2CO-27 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-28 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love
toward him .
2CO-29 For to this end also did I write that I might know the
proof of you whether ye be obedient in all things .
2CO-210 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-211 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not
ignorant of his devices .
2CO-212 Furthermore when I came to Troas to preach Christ's
gospel and a door was opened unto me of the Lord .
2CO-213 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-214 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-215 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them
that are saved and in them that perish .
2CO-216 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-217 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-31 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-32 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read
of all men .
2CO-33 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-34 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward .
2CO-35 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any
thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of God .
2CO-36 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-37 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-38 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
glorious .
2CO-39 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory much
more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory .
2CO-310 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in
this respect by reason of the glory that excelleth .
2CO-311 For if that which is done away was glorious much more
that which remaineth is glorious .
2CO-312 Seeing then that we have such hope we use great
plainness of speech .
2CO-313 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-314 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-315 But even unto this day when Moses is read the veil is
upon their heart .
2CO-316 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord the veil
shall be taken away .
2CO-317 Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the
Lord is there is liberty .
2CO-318 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-41 Therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have
received mercy we faint not .
2CO-42 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-43 But if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost
.
2CO-44 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-45 For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord
and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake .
2CO-46 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-47 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the
excellency of the power may be of God and not of us .
2CO-48 We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are
perplexed but not in despair .
2CO-49 Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed .
2CO-410 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-411 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-412 So then death worketh in us but life in you .
2CO-413 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-414 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall
raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you .
2CO-415 For all things are for your sakes that the abundant
grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the
glory of God .
2CO-416 For which cause we faint not but though our outward man
perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day .
2CO-417 For our light affliction which is but for a moment
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory .
2CO-418 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-51 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-52 For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed
upon with our house which is from heaven .
2CO-53 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked .
2CO-54 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-55 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is
God who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit .
2CO-56 Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we
are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord .
2CO-57 For we walk by faith not by sight .
2CO-58 We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent
from the body and to be present with the Lord .
2CO-59 Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we
may be accepted of him .
2CO-510 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-511 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-512 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-513 For whether we be beside ourselves it is to God or
whether we be sober it is for your cause .
2CO-514 For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus
judge that if one died for all then were all dead .
2CO-515 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-516 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-517 Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature
old things are passed away behold all things are become new .
2CO-518 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-519 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-520 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-521 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-61 We then as workers together with him beseech you also
that ye receive not the grace of God in vain .
2CO-62 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-63 Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not
blamed .
2CO-64 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers
of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in
distresses .
2CO-65 In stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in
watchings in fastings .
2CO-66 By pureness by knowledge by longsuffering by kindness by
the Holy Ghost by love unfeigned .
2CO-67 By the word of truth by the power of God by the armour
of righteousness on the right hand and on the left .
2CO-68 By honour and dishonour by evil report and good report
as deceivers and yet true .
2CO-69 As unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we
live as chastened and not killed .
2CO-610 As sorrowful yet alway rejoicing as poor yet making
many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things .
2CO-611 O ye Corinthians our mouth is open unto you our heart
is enlarged .
2CO-612 Ye are not straitened in us but ye are straitened in
your own bowels .
2CO-613 Now for a recompense in the same I speak as unto my
children be ye also enlarged .
2CO-614 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what
communion hath light with darkness .
2CO-615 And what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part
hath he that believeth with an infidel .
2CO-616 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-617 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-618 And will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons
and daughters saith the Lord Almighty .
* 2CO-71 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-72 Receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no
man we have defrauded no man .
2CO-73 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-74 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-75 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-76 Nevertheless God that comforteth those that are cast
down comforted us by the coming of Titus .
2CO-77 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-78 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-79 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-710 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to
be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death .
2CO-711 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-712 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-713 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-714 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-715 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-716 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in
all things .
* 2CO-81 Moreover brethren we do you to wit of the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of Macedonia .
2CO-82 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-83 For to their power I bear record yea and beyond their
power they were willing of themselves .
2CO-84 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the
gift and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the
saints .
2CO-85 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-86 Insomuch that we desired Titus that as he had begun so
he would also finish in you the same grace also .
2CO-87 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-88 I speak not by commandment but by occasion of the
forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love .
2CO-89 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-810 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-811 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-812 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-813 For I mean not that other men be eased and ye burdened .
2CO-814 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-815 As it is written He that had gathered much had nothing
over and he that had gathered little had no lack .
2CO-816 But thanks be to God which put the same earnest care
into the heart of Titus for you .
2CO-817 For indeed he accepted the exhortation but being more
forward of his own accord he went unto you .
2CO-818 And we have sent with him the brother whose praise is
in the gospel throughout all the churches .
2CO-819 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-820 Avoiding this that no man should blame us in this
abundance which is administered by us .
2CO-821 Providing for honest things not only in the sight of
the Lord but also in the sight of men .
2CO-822 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-823 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-824 Wherefore show ye to them and before the churches the
proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf .
* 2CO-91 For as touching the ministering to the saints it is
superfluous for me to write to you .
2CO-92 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-93 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-94 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-95 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-96 But this I say He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully .
2CO-97 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-98 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-99 As it is written He hath dispersed abroad he hath given
to the poor his righteousness remaineth for ever .
2CO-910 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-911 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness
which causeth through us thanksgiving to God .
2CO-912 For the administration of this service not only
supplieth the want of the saints but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God .
2CO-913 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-914 And by their prayer for you which long after you for
the exceeding grace of God in you .
2CO-915 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift .
* 2CO-101 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-102 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-103 For though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the
flesh .
2CO-104 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds .
2CO-105 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-106 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience
when your obedience is fulfilled .
2CO-107 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-108 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-109 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by
letters .
2CO-1010 For his letters say they are weighty and powerful but
his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible .
2CO-1011 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-1012 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-1013 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-1014 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-1015 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-1016 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-1017 But he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord .
2CO-1018 For not he that commendeth himself is approved but
whom the Lord commendeth .
* 2CO-111 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my
folly and indeed bear with me .
2CO-112 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-113 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-114 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-115 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest
apostles .
2CO-116 But though I be rude in speech yet not in knowledge but
we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things .
2CO-117 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-118 I robbed other churches taking wages of them to do you
service .
2CO-119 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-1110 As the truth of Christ is in me no man shall stop me
of this boasting in the regions of Achaia .
2CO-1111 Wherefore because I love you not God knoweth .
2CO-1112 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-1113 For such are false apostles deceitful workers
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ .
2CO-1114 And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light .
2CO-1115 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-1116 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-1117 That which I speak I speak it not after the Lord but
as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting .
2CO-1118 Seeing that many glory after the flesh I will glory
also .
2CO-1119 For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are
wise .
2CO-1120 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-1121 I speak as concerning reproach as though we had been
weak Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold I speak foolishly I am
bold also .
2CO-1122 Are they Hebrews so am I Are they Israelites so am I
Are they the seed of Abraham so am I .
2CO-1123 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-1124 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save
one .
2CO-1125 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-1126 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-1127 In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in
hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness .
2CO-1128 Beside those things that are without that which cometh
upon me daily the care of all the churches .
2CO-1129 Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I
burn not .
2CO-1130 If I must needs glory I will glory of the things which
concern mine infirmities .
2CO-1131 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which is
blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not .
2CO-1132 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept
the city of the Damascenes with a garrison desirous to apprehend
me .
2CO-1133 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the
wall and escaped his hands .
* 2CO-121 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will
come to visions and revelations of the Lord .
2CO-122 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-123 And I knew such a man whether in the body or out of the
body I cannot tell God knoweth .
2CO-124 How that he was caught up into paradise and heard
unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter .
2CO-125 Of such an one will I glory yet of myself I will not
glory but in mine infirmities .
2CO-126 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-127 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-128 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might
depart from me .
2CO-129 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-1210 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-1211 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-1212 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you
in all patience in signs and wonders and mighty deeds .
2CO-1213 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-1214 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-1215 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you
though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved .
2CO-1216 But be it so I did not burden you nevertheless being
crafty I caught you with guile .
2CO-1217 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent
unto you .
2CO-1218 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-1219 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-1220 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-1221 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-131 This is the third time I am coming to you In the
mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established .
2CO-132 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-133 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me which to
you-ward is not weak but is mighty in you .
2CO-134 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-135 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-136 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not
reprobates .
2CO-137 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-138 For we can do nothing against the truth but for the
truth .
2CO-139 For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong and
this also we wish even your perfection .
2CO-1310 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-1311 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-1312 Greet one another with an holy kiss .
2CO-1313 All the saints salute you .
2CO-1314 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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