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2 C O RIN T H I A N S 1
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order to continue to minister effectively to other churches. He also had to address the
issue of the false teachers and warn the people to carefully compare their words to the
words of Jesus. He had to remind the people how their church began, in love and unity.
Paul gives us a good example of how to respond when we are unjustly attacked. There
is rebuke, but there is also love and encouragement. Evil motives are exposed, but Paul
longs for a changed heart in everyone.
Key verses in 2 Corinthians
1:3- 4 All praise to God, the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our
merciful Father and the source
of all comfort. He comforts us in
all our troubles so that we can
comfort others.
1:22 He has identified us as his
own by placing the Holy Spirit in
our hearts as the first installment
that guarantees everything he has
promised us.
3:3 Clearly, you are a letter from
Christ showing the result of our
ministry among you. This “letter”
is written not with pen and ink, but
with the Spirit of the living God. It
is carved not on tablets of stone,
but on human hearts.
3:18 And the Lord—who is the
Spirit—makes us more and more
like him as we are changed into his
glorious image.
8:9 You know the generous grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though
he was rich, yet for your sakes he
became poor, so that by his poverty
he could make you rich.
9:7 You must each decide in your
heart how much to give. And don’t
4:7 We now have this light shining give reluctantly or in response to
in our hearts, but we ourselves are pressure. “For God loves a person
like fragile clay jars containing this who gives cheerfully.”
great treasure. This makes it clear
12:7- 9 So to keep me from
that our great power is from God,
becoming proud, I was given a
not from ourselves.
thorn in my flesh . . . Three different
5:21 For God made Christ, who
times I begged the Lord to take it
never sinned, to be the offering for away. Each time he said, “My grace
is all you need. My power works
our sin, so that we could be made
best in weakness.”
right with God through Christ.
Greetings from Paul
This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will
of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and
from our brother Timothy.
I am writing to God’s church in Corinth and
to all of his holy people throughout Greece.*
2 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ give you grace and peace.
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— promises —
from God
The more we suffer for
Christ, the more God
will shower us with his
comfort through Christ.
2 C O R I N T H I A N S 1:5
God Offers Comfort to All
3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source
of all comfort. 4 He comforts us in all our troubles
so that we can comfort others. When they are
troubled, we will be able to give them the same
comfort God has given us. 5 For the more we
suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us
with his comfort through Christ. 6 Even when we
are weighed down with troubles, it is for your
comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves
are comforted, we will certainly comfort you.
Then you can patiently endure the same things
we suffer. 7 We are confident that as you share in
our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us.
8 We think you ought to know, dear brothers
and sisters,* about the trouble we went through
in the province of Asia. We were crushed and
overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure,
and we thought we would never live through it.
9 In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we
stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely
only on God, who raises the dead. 10 And he did
rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue
us again. We have placed our confidence in him,
and he will continue to rescue us. 11 And you are
helping us by praying for us. Then many people
will give thanks because God has graciously answered so many prayers for our safety.
Paul’s Change of Plans
12 We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have lived with a God-given
1:1 Greek Achaia, the southern region of the Greek peninsula.
1:8 Greek brothers.