- 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
- 3:2 You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
- 3:3 For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the letter 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.
- 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
- 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
- 3:6 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
- 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
- 3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
- 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
- 3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels.
- 3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.
- 3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
- 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
- 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil not taken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
- 3:15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is on their heart.
- 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
- 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- 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.
2 Corinthians 3
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2 Corinthians 2
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- 2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
- 2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
- 2:3 And I wrote this same to 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.
- 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.
- 2:5 But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
- 2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
- 2:7 So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
- 2:8 Why I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
- 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
- 2:10 To whom you 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;
- 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened to me of the Lord,
- 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 there into Macedonia.
- 2:14 Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the aroma of his knowledge by us in every place.
- 2:15 For we are to God a sweet smell of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
- 2:16 To the one we are the smell of death to death; and to the other the smell of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
- 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.
2 Corinthians 1
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- 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
- 1:2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
- 1:4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.
- 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.
- 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.
- 1:7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.
- 1:8 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:
- 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:
- 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- 1:11 You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed on us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
- 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.
- 1:13 For we write none other things to you, than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;
- 1:14 As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are our’s in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- 1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit;
- 1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
- 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 yes yes, and no no?
- 1:18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no.
- 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 yes and no, but in him was yes.
- 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.
- 1:21 Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God;
- 1:22 Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
- 1:23 Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth.
- 1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith you stand.
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