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  2 Corinthians-Ch.01.  PREV - NEXT - THIS - UPPER - TOP

2Cr:01.01 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:

2Cr:01.02 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
          Lord Jesus Christ.

2Cr:01.03 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
          Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

2Cr:01.04 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.

2Cr:01.05 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
          consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

2Cr:01.06 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.

2Cr:01.07 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are
          partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the
          consolation.

2Cr:01.08 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:

2Cr:01.09 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
          not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

2Cr:01.10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in
          whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

2Cr:01.11 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.

2Cr:01.12 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.

2Cr:01.13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or
          acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

2Cr:01.14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
          rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord
          Jesus.

2Cr:01.15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before,
          that ye might have a second benefit;

2Cr:01.16 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.

2Cr:01.17 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?

2Cr:01.18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

2Cr:01.19 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.

2Cr:01.20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen,
          unto the glory of God by us.

2Cr:01.21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath
          anointed us, is God;

2Cr:01.22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit
          in our hearts.

2Cr:01.23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare
          you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

2Cr:01.24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers
          of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

 
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2Cr:02.01 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again
          to you in heaviness.

2Cr:02.02 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad,
          but the same which is made sorry by me?

2Cr:02.03 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.

2Cr:02.04 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.

2Cr:02.05 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in
          part: that I may not overcharge you all.

2Cr:02.06 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was
          inflicted of many.

2Cr:02.07 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and
          comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up
          with overmuch sorrow.

2Cr:02.08 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward
          him.

2Cr:02.09 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof
          of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

2Cr:02.10 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;

2Cr:02.11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not
          ignorant of his devices.

2Cr:02.12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel,
          and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

2Cr:02.13 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.

2Cr:02.14 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.

2Cr:02.15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
          saved, and in them that perish:

2Cr:02.16 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?

2Cr:02.17 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.

 
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2Cr:03.01 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
          others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of
          commendation from you?

2Cr:03.02 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of
          all men:

2Cr:03.03 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.

2Cr:03.04 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

2Cr:03.05 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as
          of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

2Cr:03.06 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.

2Cr:03.07 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:

2Cr:03.08 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
          glorious?

2Cr:03.09 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more
          doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

2Cr:03.10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
          respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

2Cr:03.11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that
          which remaineth is glorious.

2Cr:03.12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of
          speech:

2Cr:03.13 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:

2Cr:03.14 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.

2Cr:03.15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon
          their heart.

2Cr:03.16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
          taken away.

2Cr:03.17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
          is, there is liberty.

2Cr:03.18 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.

 
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2Cr:04.01 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
          mercy, we faint not;

2Cr:04.02 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.

2Cr:04.03 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

2Cr:04.04 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.

2Cr:04.05 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
          ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

2Cr:04.06 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.

2Cr:04.07 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
          excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

2Cr:04.08 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
          perplexed, but not in despair;

2Cr:04.09 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

2Cr:04.10 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.

2Cr:04.11 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.

2Cr:04.12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

2Cr:04.13 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;

2Cr:04.14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up
          us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

2Cr:04.15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace
          might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of
          God.

2Cr:04.16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man
          perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2Cr:04.17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh
          for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2Cr:04.18 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.

 
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2Cr:05.01 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.

2Cr:05.02 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
          with our house which is from heaven:

2Cr:05.03 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

2Cr:05.04 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.

2Cr:05.05 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who
          also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

2Cr:05.06 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are
          at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2Cr:05.07 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

2Cr:05.08 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from
          the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2Cr:05.09 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may
          be accepted of him.

2Cr:05.10 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.

2Cr:05.11 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.

2Cr:05.12 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.

2Cr:05.13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether
          we be sober, it is for your cause.

2Cr:05.14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge,
          that if one died for all, then were all dead:

2Cr:05.15 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.

2Cr:05.16 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.

2Cr:05.17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
          things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2Cr:05.18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself
          by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
          reconciliation;

2Cr:05.19 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.

2Cr:05.20 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.

2Cr:05.21 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.

 
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2Cr:06.01 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that
          ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2Cr:06.02 (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.)

2Cr:06.03 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not
          blamed:

2Cr:06.04 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
          in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in
          distresses,

2Cr:06.05 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
          watchings, in fastings;

2Cr:06.06 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by
          the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

2Cr:06.07 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of
          righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

2Cr:06.08 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as
          deceivers, and yet true;

2Cr:06.09 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we
          live; as chastened, and not killed;

2Cr:06.10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
          rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

2Cr:06.11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is
          enlarged.

2Cr:06.12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own
          bowels.

2Cr:06.13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my
          children,) be ye also enlarged.

2Cr:06.14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
          fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
          communion hath light with darkness?

2Cr:06.15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
          that believeth with an infidel?

2Cr:06.16 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.

2Cr:06.17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
          the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
          you.

2Cr:06.18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
          daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

 
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2Cr:07.01 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.

2Cr:07.02 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man,
          we have defrauded no man.

2Cr:07.03 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that
          ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

2Cr:07.04 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.

2Cr:07.05 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.

2Cr:07.06 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,
          comforted us by the coming of Titus;

2Cr:07.07 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.

2Cr:07.08 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.

2Cr:07.09 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.

2Cr:07.10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be
          repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2Cr:07.11 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.

2Cr:07.12 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.

2Cr:07.13 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.

2Cr:07.14 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.

2Cr:07.15 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.

2Cr:07.16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all
          things.

 
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2Cr:08.01 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
          bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

2Cr:08.02 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their
          joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their
          liberality.

2Cr:08.03 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power
          they were willing of themselves;

2Cr:08.04 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift,
          and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the
          saints.

2Cr:08.05 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.

2Cr:08.06 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he
          would also finish in you the same grace also.

2Cr:08.07 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.

2Cr:08.08 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness
          of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

2Cr:08.09 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.

2Cr:08.10 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.

2Cr:08.11 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.

2Cr:08.12 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.

2Cr:08.13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

2Cr:08.14 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:

2Cr:08.15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over;
          and he that had gathered little had no lack.

2Cr:08.16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the
          heart of Titus for you.

2Cr:08.17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more
          forward, of his own accord he went unto you.

2Cr:08.18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the
          gospel throughout all the churches;

2Cr:08.19 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:

2Cr:08.20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance
          which is administered by us:

2Cr:08.21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the
          Lord, but also in the sight of men.

2Cr:08.22 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.

2Cr:08.23 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.

2Cr:08.24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof
          of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

 
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2Cr:09.01 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
          superfluous for me to write to you:

2Cr:09.02 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.

2Cr:09.03 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:

2Cr:09.04 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.

2Cr:09.05 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.

2Cr:09.06 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
          sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
          bountifully.

2Cr:09.07 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him
          give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a
          cheerful giver.

2Cr:09.08 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:

2Cr:09.09 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to
          the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

2Cr:09.10 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;)

2Cr:09.11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which
          causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

2Cr:09.12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the
          want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings
          unto God;

2Cr:09.13 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;

2Cr:09.14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the
          exceeding grace of God in you.

2Cr:09.15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

 
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2Cr:10.01 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:

2Cr:10.02 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.

2Cr:10.03 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
          flesh:

2Cr:10.04 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
          through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

2Cr:10.05 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;

2Cr:10.06 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when
          your obedience is fulfilled.

2Cr:10.07 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.

2Cr:10.08 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:

2Cr:10.09 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

2Cr:10.10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his
          bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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:

2Cr: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,

2Cr: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.

2Cr:10.17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

2Cr:10.18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the
          Lord commendeth.

 
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2Cr:11.01 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and
          indeed bear with me.

2Cr:11.02 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.

2Cr:11.03 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.

2Cr:11.04 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.

2Cr:11.05 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest
          apostles.

2Cr:11.06 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we
          have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

2Cr:11.07 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be
          exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God
          freely?

2Cr:11.08 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you
          service.

2Cr:11.09 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.

2Cr:11.10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
          boasting in the regions of Achaia.

2Cr:11.11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:11.13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
          themselves into the apostles of Christ.

2Cr:11.14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel
          of light.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:11.17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it
          were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

2Cr:11.18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

2Cr:11.19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:11.22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are
          they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:11.24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

2Cr: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;

2Cr: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;

2Cr:11.27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger
          and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2Cr:11.28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon
          me daily, the care of all the churches.

2Cr:11.29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn
          not?

2Cr:11.30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which
          concern mine infirmities.

2Cr:11.31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed
          for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

2Cr:11.32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city
          of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

2Cr:11.33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall,
          and escaped his hands.

 
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2Cr:12.01 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to
          visions and revelations of the Lord.

2Cr:12.02 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.

2Cr:12.03 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the
          body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

2Cr:12.04 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable
          words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

2Cr:12.05 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,
          but in mine infirmities.

2Cr:12.06 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.

2Cr:12.07 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.

2Cr:12.08 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might
          depart from me.

2Cr:12.09 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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:12.12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all
          patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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 your's but you: for
          the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the
          parents for the children.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:12.16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being
          crafty, I caught you with guile.

2Cr:12.17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

2Cr: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?

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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:

2Cr: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.

 
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2Cr:13.01 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two
          or three witnesses shall every word be established.

2Cr:13.02 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:

2Cr:13.03 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to
          you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

2Cr:13.04 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.

2Cr:13.05 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?

2Cr:13.06 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

2Cr:13.07 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.

2Cr:13.08 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

2Cr:13.09 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this
          also we wish, even your perfection.

2Cr: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.

2Cr: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.

2Cr:13.12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.

2Cr:13.13 All the saints salute you.

2Cr: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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