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2 Corinthians 12:1-10

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Rather than boast in extraordinary revelations, Paul boasts in the weakness God uses to keep him humble and dependent on Christ. Though he pleaded thr...

2 Corinthians 11:16-33

2 Corinthians 11:16-33

Pressed to answer false apostles, Paul turns worldly boasting upside down. His credentials are not polish, money, or status but costly love for Christ...

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Paul loves the Corinthians with a godly jealousy and warns them that false apostles can look righteous while corrupting the church with another Jesus,...

2 Corinthians 10

2 Corinthians 10

Paul defends his Christ-given apostolic authority against self-promoting opponents who disrupted the Corinthian church. His warfare relies not on fles...

2 Corinthians 7:13-9:15

2 Corinthians 7:13-9:15

Paul rejoices in the Corinthians' response to Titus and urges them to complete their promised relief gift for needy saints. The Macedonians' generous ...

2 Corinthians 6:11-7:12

2 Corinthians 6:11-7:12

Believers must not bind themselves to unbelief but pursue holiness as God's temple and people, keeping their affections fixed on Christ. Paul opens hi...

2 Corinthians 6:1-10

2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Paul pleads with hearers not to receive God's grace in vain because the day of salvation is now. His apostolic ministry commends the gospel without of...

2 Corinthians 5

2 Corinthians 5

The risen Christ and indwelling Spirit guarantee believers' bodily resurrection, so they walk by faith and aim to please Christ before his judgment se...

2 Corinthians 4:7-18

2 Corinthians 4:7-18

Believers carry God's treasure in fragile bodies so the power is clearly his. They may be pressured, perplexed, persecuted, and struck down, yet God d...

2 Corinthians 4:1-6

2 Corinthians 4:1-6

Paul's gospel ministry refuses shameful craftiness and distortion because it does not proclaim Paul but Jesus Christ as Lord. Though the god of this a...

2 Corinthians 3

2 Corinthians 3

The Spirit writes Christ's living letter on human hearts and makes ministers sufficient for the new covenant. The law exposes sin and condemns, but th...

2 Corinthians 2:3-17

2 Corinthians 2:3-17

When church discipline produces repentance, the church must forgive, comfort, and reaffirm love so the restored person is not swallowed by sorrow. Pau...

2 Corinthians 1:12-2:2

2 Corinthians 1:12–2:2

Paul explains that his changed travel plans were neither fickleness nor fleshly self-interest. His message remains as faithful as God: every divine pr...

2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Despair of Life

God is the Father of mercies and God of all comfort who consoles his people in suffering so they can comfort others. Paul and Timothy endured afflicti...

2 Corinthians 1:1-11

2 Corinthians 1:1-11

God is the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. He comforts believers in tribulation so they can comfort others, and Christ's consolation abounds...

1 Corinthians 16:13-24

1 Corinthians 16:13-24

Paul closes 1 Corinthians with rapid exhortations to vigilance, firmness, courage, strength, and all-encompassing love; he honors devoted servants, sh...

1 Corinthians 16:1-12

1 Corinthians 16:1-12

Paul organizes a first-day collection, proportionate to each believer's prosperity, for needy saints in Jerusalem and handles the gift transparently. ...

1 Corinthians 15:29-58

1 Corinthians 15:29-58

Christian baptism, sacrifice, and holiness make sense because the dead will rise. As seed is sown and raised in a transformed form, believers' mortal ...

1 Corinthians 15:12-28

1 Corinthians 15:12-28

Denying bodily resurrection empties apostolic preaching, makes faith futile, leaves sinners condemned, and destroys hope for believers who have died. ...

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

True Good News

Paul recalls the gospel the Corinthians received and by which they are saved: Christ died for sins, was buried, rose on the third day according to Scr...

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Paul restates the gospel the Corinthians received and in which they stand: Christ died for sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, rose on the t...

1 Corinthians 14

1 Corinthians 14

Spiritual gifts in gathered worship must serve intelligible edification rather than private display. Prophecy builds up, exhorts, comforts, and can ex...

1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13

Even spectacular gifts, knowledge, faith, generosity, and sacrifice are empty without love. Love patiently and truthfully seeks another's good, endure...

1 Corinthians 12:1–31

1 Corinthians 12:1–31