Month: December 2016

Summary Verses
9:1 Paul exhorts the Corinthians for the zeal to spread the Gospel. 9:6 Paul explains that giving alms to help one another is the same as sowing seeds of the Gospel. Those who sow sparingly shall reap sparingly. 9:10 God repays those which great gain who love the Lord and do His will. 10:2 Paul shows then that through Christ we have the confidence and the weapons to wage fight the spiritual warfare waged against us. 10:7 Paul reminds them whether present with them or absent from them he has the power to deal with disobedience. 11:2 Paul explains the great love and jealousy he has for the Corinthian church. 11:5 Paul speaks of his praises for them. 11:9 And the labor he worked for them with reward because of his love for them. 11:12 Paul reminds the Corinthians that false apostles will try to transform themselves into workers of the Gospel to deceive many and lead them astray. 11:23 Paul then speaks of what he himself has bore for the Gospel of Christ, not to boast, but to show the Corinthians his credentials as an Apostle of Christ.

2nd Corinthians Chapter 9
9:1 Now concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you;
9:2 for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has stirred up the majority.
9:3 Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready;
9:4 lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you) should be ashamed of this confident boasting.
9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation.
9:6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
9:7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
9:9 As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”
9:10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
9:11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
9:13 while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men,
9:14 and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you.
9:15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift

2nd Corinthians Chapter 10
10:1 Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ-who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
10:2 But I beg you that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
10:6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
10:7 Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ’s, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ’s, even so we are Christ’s.
10:8 For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed
10:9 lest I seem to terrify you by letters.
10:10 “For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”
10:11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present.
10:12 For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
10:13 We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us-a sphere which especially includes you.
10:14 For we are not overextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ;
10:15 not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere,
10:16 to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s sphere of accomplishment.
10:17 But “he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
10:18 For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

2nd Corinthians Chapter 11
11:1 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly-and indeed you do bear with me.
11:2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
11:4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted-you may well put up with it
11:5 For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.
11:6 Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.
11:7 Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you.
11:9 And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.
11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11:11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows
11:12 But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.
11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
11:14 And no wonder For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
11:16 I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.
11:17 What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
11:18 Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
11:19 For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise
11:20 For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face.
11:21 To our shame, I say that we were too weak for that But in whatever anyone is bold-I speak foolishly-I am bold also.
11:22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
11:23 Are they ministers of Christ?-I speak as a fool-I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
11:24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
11:26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
11:27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness
11:28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.
11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
11:30 If I must boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
11:32 In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me;
11:33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.