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Listen to the full Second Epistle to the Corinthians in the King James Version (KJV) with text.  Audio Bible https://tienda.josepenacoto.com/products/the-bible-audiobook  📖 Chapters 0:00 2 Corinthians 1. God’s Comfort in Affliction and Paul’s Change of Plans 4:01 2 Corinthians 2. Forgiveness for the Sinner and the Aroma of Christ 6:33 2 Corinthians 3. Ministers of the New Covenant and the Glory of the Spirit 9:12 2 Corinthians 4. Treasures in Jars of Clay and Endurance Through Trials 12:04 2 Corinthians 5. Our Heavenly Dwelling and the Ministry of Reconciliation 15:40 2 Corinthians 6. Paul’s Hardships and the Call to Holiness 18:31 2 Corinthians 7. Paul’s Joy Over the Corinthians’ Repentance 21:38 2 Corinthians 8. Encouragement for Generous Giving 25:23 2 Corinthians 9. The Blessing of Cheerful Giving 27:55 2 Corinthians 10. Paul Defends His Apostolic Authority 30:52 2 Corinthians 11. Paul’s Suffering as an Apostle 35:48 2 Corinthians 12. Paul’s Vision, His Thorn in the Flesh, and God’s Grace 39:38 2 Corinthians 13. Final Warnings and Encouragement  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9nL9AX7_1DODTGB18Hh_JCJr2s-l2KnL  The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, commonly known as 2 Corinthians, is the eighth book of the New Testament and one of Paul’s most personal and emotional letters. Written around AD 55–57, likely from Macedonia, it follows 1 Corinthians and addresses new challenges in the Corinthian church. While 1 Corinthians dealt with moral and doctrinal issues, 2 Corinthians is more intimate, revealing Paul’s deep love, struggles, and defense of his apostleship. The letter encourages believers to remain faithful to Christ, endure suffering, and live out the gospel with integrity.  Paul opens by expressing comfort in suffering, sharing how he and his companions faced extreme hardships, even to the point of despairing of life. He emphasizes that God is the God of all comfort, who strengthens believers so they can comfort others. He explains why he delayed his visit to Corinth, not out of avoidance but to give them time to repent and restore their relationship with him.  A major theme in 2 Corinthians is Paul’s defense of his apostleship. False teachers had infiltrated the church, questioning Paul’s authority and spreading lies. Paul defends his ministry, not with arrogance, but by highlighting his sufferings, weaknesses, and dependence on God. He contrasts the old covenant of the Law with the new covenant of grace through Christ, emphasizing that the Spirit gives life and that believers are being transformed into the image of Christ.  Paul also speaks about Christian generosity, urging the Corinthians to contribute to the collection for the poor believers in Jerusalem. He presents giving as an act of grace, reminding them that God loves a cheerful giver and that generosity is a reflection of faith and trust in God’s provision.

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00:00THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS

00:04CHAPTER 1

00:06Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, under the

00:14church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia, grace

00:20be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:26Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the

00:33God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort

00:39them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

00:47For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

00:53And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual

01:01in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

01:05Or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

01:11And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings,

01:16so shall ye be also of the consolation.

01:20For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that

01:26we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.

01:32But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, but we should not trust in ourselves, but in

01:38God which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, in

01:45whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.

01:48Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means

01:55of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

01:59For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly

02:07sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation

02:13in the world, and more abundantly, to you word.

02:18For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge.

02:23And I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end, as also ye have acknowledged us in part,

02:29that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

02:37And in this confidence, I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second

02:43benefit, and to cast by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you,

02:50and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea.

02:53When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness, or the things that I purpose do

02:59I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

03:06But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

03:11For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who is preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and

03:18Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

03:24For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him amen, unto the glory of God by us.

03:32Now he which establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, who hath also

03:39sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

03:43Moreover, I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet into Corinth.

03:52Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy, for by faith ye stand.

04:01Chapter 2

04:02But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

04:09For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

04:17And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice,

04:24having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

04:29For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears,

04:35not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly under you.

04:41But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part, that I may not overcharge you all.

04:49Sufficient to such a man is this punishment which was inflicted of many,

04:54so that contrarywise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him,

04:59lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

05:05Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

05:10For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you,

05:14whether ye be obedient in all things.

05:17To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also.

05:22And if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it for your sakes,

05:28forgave I it in the person of Christ.

05:31Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices.

05:37Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel,

05:41and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, I had no rest in my spirit,

05:46because I found not Titus my brother.

05:49But taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

05:54Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us, to triumph in Christ,

06:00and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

06:05For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ,

06:09and them that are saved, and in them that perish.

06:12To the one we are the savour of death unto death,

06:16and to the other the savour of life unto life.

06:20And who is sufficient for these things?

06:22For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God,

06:26but as of sincerity, but as of God,

06:30in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

06:32Chapter 3

06:35Do we begin again to commend ourselves?

06:39Or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you,

06:44or letters of commendation from you?

06:47Ye are our epistle written in our hearts,

06:50known and read of all men.

06:53Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ,

06:58ministered by us, written not with ink,

07:01but with the Spirit of the living God,

07:03not in tables of stone,

07:05but in fleshly tables of the heart.

07:08And such trust have we through Christ to Godward,

07:12not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves,

07:17but our sufficiency is of God,

07:20who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament,

07:24not of the letter, but of the Spirit.

07:27For the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

07:31But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious,

07:37so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses

07:41for the glory of his countenance,

07:44which glory was to be done away,

07:46how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?

07:50For if the ministration of condemnation be glory,

07:54much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

07:59For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect

08:04by reason of the glory that it selleth.

08:07For if that which is done away was glorious,

08:10much more that which remaineth is glorious.

08:14Seeing then that we have such hope,

08:16we use great plainness of speech.

08:19And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face,

08:22that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished,

08:28but their minds were blinded.

08:30For until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away

08:34in the reading of the Old Testament,

08:36which veil is done away in Christ.

08:40But even unto this day, when Moses is read,

08:43the veil is upon their heart.

08:46Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord,

08:49the veil shall be taken away.

08:52Now the Lord is that Spirit,

08:54and where the Spirit of the Lord is,

08:57there is liberty.

08:59But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord

09:04are changed into the same image from glory to glory,

09:09even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

09:11Chapter 4

09:14Therefore, seeing we have this ministry,

09:18as we have received mercy,

09:20we faint not,

09:22but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,

09:26not walking in craftiness,

09:28nor handling the word of God deceitfully,

09:31but by manifestation of the truth,

09:33commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

09:38But if our gospel be hid,

09:41it is hid to them that are lost,

09:43in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,

09:48lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,

09:52who is the image of God,

09:54should shine under them.

09:56For we preach not ourselves,

09:58but Christ Jesus the Lord,

10:00and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

10:04For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,

10:08hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God

10:13in the face of Jesus Christ.

10:16But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,

10:19that the excellency of the power may be of God,

10:23and not of us.

10:24We are troubled on every side,

10:27yet not distressed.

10:29We are perplexed,

10:30but not in despair.

10:32Persecuted,

10:33but not forsaken.

10:35Cast down,

10:36but not destroyed.

10:38Always bearing about in the body

10:40the dying of the Lord Jesus,

10:42that the life also of Jesus

10:44might be made manifest in our body.

10:47For we which live

10:48are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,

10:52that the life also of Jesus

10:54might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

10:58So then death worketh in us,

11:01but life in you.

11:03We having the same spirit of faith,

11:05according as it is written,

11:07I believed,

11:08and therefore have I spoken.

11:11We also believed,

11:13and therefore speak,

11:15knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus

11:17shall raise up us also by Jesus,

11:20and shall present us with you.

11:23For all things are for your sakes,

11:26that the abundant grace

11:28might through the thanksgiving of many

11:30redound to the glory of God.

11:33For which cause we faint not,

11:36but though our outward man perish,

11:39yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

11:43For our light affliction,

11:45which is but for a moment,

11:46worketh for us a far more exceeding

11:49and eternal weight of glory.

11:51While we look not at the things which are seen,

11:55but at the things which are not seen.

11:57For the things which are seen are temporal,

12:00but the things which are not seen are eternal.

12:05Chapter 5

12:06For we know that if our earthly house

12:10of this tabernacle were dissolved,

12:12we have a building of God,

12:14and house not made with hands,

12:17eternal in the heavens.

12:19For in this we groan,

12:21earnestly desiring to be clothed upon

12:23with our house which is from heaven.

12:26If so be that being clothed,

12:28we shall not be found naked.

12:30For we that are in this tabernacle

12:33dew-grown, being burdened,

12:35not for that we would be unclothed,

12:38but clothed upon,

12:40that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

12:44Now he that hath wrought us

12:46for the selfsame thing is God,

12:49who also hath given unto us

12:51the earnest of the Spirit.

12:54Therefore we are always confident,

12:57knowing that whilst we are at home in the body,

13:00we are absent from the Lord.

13:02For we walk by faith,

13:04not by sight.

13:06We are confident, I say,

13:08and willing rather to be absent from the body,

13:11and to be present with the Lord.

13:13Wherefore we labor,

13:15that whether present or absent,

13:17we may be accepted of Him.

13:20For we must all appear

13:22before the judgment seat of Christ,

13:25that every one may receive

13:26the things done in his body,

13:28according to that he hath done,

13:31whether it be good or bad.

13:34Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord,

13:36we persuade men,

13:38but we are made manifest unto God,

13:41and I trust also are made manifest

13:44in your consciences.

13:46For we commend not ourselves again unto you,

13:49but give you occasion to glory on our behalf,

13:52that ye may have somewhat to answer them

13:55which glory in appearance,

13:57and not in heart.

13:59For whether we be beside ourselves,

14:01it is to God.

14:03Or whether we be sober,

14:05it is for your cause.

14:07For the love of Christ constraineth us,

14:10because we thus judge,

14:12that if one died for all,

14:14then were all dead.

14:17And that he died for all,

14:18that they which live,

14:20should not henceforth live unto themselves,

14:23but unto Him,

14:24which died for them,

14:26and rose again.

14:28Wherefore henceforth

14:29know we no man after the flesh.

14:32Yea, though we have known Christ

14:34after the flesh,

14:35yet now henceforth

14:36know we Him no more.

14:39Therefore,

14:40if any man be in Christ,

14:43he is a new creature.

14:45Old things are passed away,

14:47behold,

14:48all things are become new,

14:51and all things are of God,

14:54who hath reconciled us to Himself

14:56by Jesus Christ,

14:58and hath given to us

14:59the ministry of reconciliation,

15:02to wit,

15:03that God was in Christ,

15:06reconciling the world unto Himself,

15:09not imputing their trespasses unto them,

15:12and hath committed unto us

15:14the word of reconciliation.

15:17Now then we are ambassadors for Christ,

15:20as though God did beseech you by us.

15:23We pray you in Christ's stead,

15:26Be ye reconciled to God.

15:29For He hath made Him

15:31to be sin for us,

15:33who knew no sin,

15:35that we might be made

15:36the righteousness of God in Him.

15:41Chapter 6

15:42We then, as workers together with Him,

15:46beseech you also

15:47that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

15:51For He saith,

15:52I have heard thee in a time accepted,

15:55and in the day of salvation

15:57have I succored thee.

15:59Behold, now is the accepted time.

16:02Behold, now is the day of salvation.

16:06Giving no offense in anything,

16:09that the ministry be not blamed.

16:11But in all things,

16:13approving ourselves as the ministers of God,

16:16in much patience,

16:17in afflictions,

16:19in necessities,

16:20in distresses,

16:21in stripes,

16:23in imprisonments,

16:24in tumults,

16:25in labors,

16:26in watchings,

16:28in fastings,

16:29by pureness,

16:31by knowledge,

16:32by long-suffering,

16:34by kindness,

16:35by the Holy Ghost,

16:37by love unfeigned,

16:39by the word of truth,

16:41by the power of God,

16:43by the armor of righteousness

16:45on the right hand and on the left,

16:47by honor and dishonor,

16:49by evil report and good report,

16:52as deceivers,

16:54and yet true,

16:55as unknown,

16:56and yet well known,

16:58as dying,

16:59and behold,

17:00we live,

17:01as chastened,

17:03and not killed,

17:04as sorrowful,

17:05yet allway rejoicing,

17:08as poor,

17:09yet making many rich,

17:11as having nothing,

17:13and yet possessing,

17:15all things.

17:16O ye Corinthians,

17:18our mouth is open unto you,

17:20our heart is enlarged.

17:23Ye are not straitened in us,

17:25but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

17:28Now for a recompense in the same,

17:31I speak as unto my children,

17:33be ye also enlarged.

17:36Be ye not unequally yoked

17:38together with unbelievers,

17:40for what fellowship hath righteousness

17:42with unrighteousness,

17:44and what communion hath light

17:46with darkness,

17:48and what concord hath Christ

17:50with Belial,

17:51or what part hath he that believeth

17:53with an infidel,

17:55and what agreement hath the temple

17:57of God with idols,

17:59for ye are the temple

18:01of the living God,

18:02as God hath said,

18:04I will dwell in them,

18:06and walk in them,

18:07and I will be their God,

18:10and they shall be my people.

18:13Wherefore come out from among them,

18:15and be ye separate,

18:17saith the Lord,

18:18and touch not the unclean thing,

18:20and I will receive you,

18:23and will be a father unto you,

18:25and ye shall be my sons and daughters,

18:28saith the Lord Almighty.

18:30Chapter 7

18:33Having therefore these promises,

18:36dearly beloved,

18:37let us cleanse ourselves

18:39from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,

18:42perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

18:46Receive us.

18:47We have wronged no man,

18:49we have corrupted no man,

18:51we have defrauded no man.

18:53I speak not this to condemn you,

18:56for I have said before

18:58that ye are in our hearts

19:00to die and live with you.

19:02Great is my boldness of speech toward you,

19:05great is my glorying of you.

19:08I am filled with comfort,

19:10I am exceeding joyful

19:12in all our tribulation,

19:14for when we were come into Macedonia,

19:17our flesh had no rest,

19:19but we were troubled on every side,

19:21without were fightings,

19:23within were fears.

19:25Nevertheless,

19:26God that comforteth those

19:28that are cast down,

19:29comforted us by the coming of Titus,

19:32and not by his coming only,

19:35but by the consolation

19:36wherewith he was comforted in you,

19:39when he told us of your earnest desire,

19:41your mourning,

19:42your fervent mind toward me,

19:45so that I rejoice the more.

19:47For though I made you sorry

19:49with a letter,

19:50I do not repent,

19:51though I did repent,

19:53for I perceive

19:54that the same epistle

19:55hath made you sorry,

19:57though it were but for a season.

19:59Now I rejoice

20:00not that ye were made sorry,

20:02but that ye sorrowed to repentance,

20:05for ye were made sorry

20:06after a godly manner,

20:08that ye might receive

20:09damage by us in nothing.

20:12For godly sorrow

20:13worketh repentance to salvation,

20:16not to be repented of,

20:17but the sorrow of the world

20:19worketh death.

20:21For behold this self-samed thing,

20:23which ye sorrowed after

20:25a godly sort,

20:26what carefulness it wrought in you,

20:28yea, what clearing of yourselves,

20:31yea, what indignation,

20:33yea, what fear,

20:34yea, what vehement desire,

20:37yea, what zeal,

20:38yea, what revenge,

20:40in all things ye have approved yourselves

20:43to be clear in this matter.

20:45Wherefore, though I wrote unto you,

20:47I did it not for his cause

20:49that had done the wrong,

20:51nor for his cause

20:52that suffered wrong,

20:53but that our care for you

20:55in the sight of God

20:57might appear unto you.

20:59Therefore we were comforted

21:00in your comfort,

21:02yea, and exceedingly the more

21:03joyed we for the joy of Titus,

21:06because his spirit

21:07was refreshed by you all.

21:09For if I have boasted anything

21:10to him of you,

21:12I am not ashamed,

21:13but as we spake all things

21:15to you in truth,

21:16even so our boasting,

21:18which I made before Titus,

21:20is found a truth.

21:22And his inward affection

21:23is more abundant toward you,

21:25whilst he remembereth

21:26the obedience of you all,

21:28how with fear and trembling

21:30you received him.

21:32I rejoice, therefore,

21:33that I have confidence in you

21:35in all things.

21:37Chapter 8

21:40Moreover, brethren,

21:42we do you to wit

21:43of the grace of God

21:44bestowed on the churches

21:45of Macedonia,

21:46how that in a great trial

21:48of affliction,

21:49the abundance of their joy

21:50and their deep poverty

21:52abounded unto the riches

21:53of their liberality.

21:55For to their power

21:56I bear record,

21:57yea, and beyond their power,

22:00they were willing of themselves,

22:02praying us with much entreaty

22:04that we would receive the gift

22:06and take upon us

22:07the fellowship of the ministering

22:09to the saints.

22:11And this they did,

22:12not as we hoped,

22:13but first gave their own selves

22:15to the Lord

22:16and unto us

22:17by the will of God,

22:19insomuch that we desired Titus,

22:21that as he had begun,

22:23so he would also finish in you

22:25the same grace also.

22:27Therefore,

22:28as ye abound in everything,

22:30in faith,

22:31and utterance,

22:32and knowledge,

22:33and in all diligence,

22:35and in all your love to us,

22:37see that ye abound

22:38in this grace also.

22:40I speak not by commandment,

22:43but by occasion

22:44of the forwardness of others,

22:46and to prove the sincerity

22:48of your love.

22:49For ye know the grace

22:50of our Lord Jesus Christ,

22:52that though he was rich,

22:54yet for your sakes

22:55he became poor,

22:56that ye through his poverty

22:59might be rich.

23:01And herein I give my advice,

23:03for this is expedient for you,

23:05who have begun before

23:07not only to do,

23:09but also to be forward

23:11a year ago.

23:12Now therefore perform

23:14the doing of it,

23:16that as there was

23:17a readiness to will,

23:18so there may be

23:19a performance also

23:21out of that which ye have.

23:24For if there be first

23:25a willing mind,

23:26it is accepted

23:27according to that

23:28a man hath,

23:29and not according

23:30to what he hath not.

23:33For I mean,

23:34not that other men

23:35be eased,

23:36and ye be burdened,

23:38but by an equality,

23:40that now at this time

23:41your abundance

23:42may be a supply

23:43for their want,

23:45that their abundance

23:46also may be a supply

23:48for your want,

23:50that there may be equality.

23:52As it is written,

23:54he that had gathered much

23:55had nothing over,

23:57and he that had gathered

23:58little had no lack.

24:00But thanks be to God

24:02which put the same

24:03earnest care

24:04into the heart of Titus

24:05for you.

24:07For indeed he accepted

24:08the exhortation,

24:10but being more forward,

24:11of his own accord

24:12he went unto you.

24:14And we have sent with him

24:15the brother whose praise

24:17is in the gospel

24:18throughout all the churches.

24:20And not that only,

24:22but who was also chosen

24:24of the churches

24:25to travel with us

24:26with this grace

24:27which is ministered by us

24:29to the glory

24:30of the same Lord

24:31and declaration

24:32of your ready mind,

24:34avoiding this,

24:36that no man should blame us

24:37in this abundance

24:38which is administered by us,

24:41providing for honest things

24:43not only in the sight

24:44of the Lord,

24:45but also in the sight of men.

24:48And we have sent with them

24:50our brother

24:50whom we have often times

24:52proved diligent in many things,

24:54but now much more diligent

24:56upon the great confidence

24:58which I have in you.

25:01Whether any do inquire of Titus,

25:03he is my partner

25:04and fellow helper

25:05concerning you.

25:07Or our brethren be inquired of,

25:09they are the messengers

25:10of the churches

25:11and the glory of Christ.

25:14Wherefore show ye to them,

25:16and before the churches,

25:18the proof of your love

25:19and of our boasting

25:21on your behalf.

25:24Chapter 9

25:25For as touching the ministering

25:27to the saints,

25:29it is superfluous

25:30for me to write to you.

25:31For I know the forwardness

25:33of your mind,

25:34for which I boast of you

25:35to them of Macedonia,

25:37that Achaia was ready

25:39a year ago,

25:40and your zeal

25:41hath provoked very many.

25:43Yet have I sent the brethren,

25:44lest our boasting of you

25:46should be in vain

25:47in this behalf,

25:48that as I said,

25:50ye may be ready.

25:51Lest happily,

25:52if they of Macedonia

25:53come with me,

25:54and find you unprepared,

25:57we,

25:57that we say not ye,

25:59should be ashamed

26:00in this same confident boasting.

26:02Therefore I thought it necessary

26:04to exhort the brethren,

26:06that they would go before unto you,

26:09and make up beforehand

26:10your bounty,

26:11whereof ye had noticed before,

26:14that the same might be ready

26:15as a matter of bounty,

26:17and not as of covetousness.

26:20But this I say,

26:21he which soweth sparingly

26:23shall reap also sparingly,

26:25and he which soweth bountifully

26:27shall reap also bountifully.

26:30Every man according

26:31as he purposeth in his heart,

26:33so let him give,

26:35not grudgingly,

26:36or of necessity.

26:37For God loveth

26:39a cheerful giver.

26:41And God is able

26:42to make all grace

26:44abound toward you,

26:45that ye always having

26:46all sufficiency

26:47in all things,

26:49may abound

26:50to every good work.

26:52As it is written,

26:53He hath dispersed abroad,

26:55he hath given to the poor,

26:57his righteousness

26:58remaineth for ever.

27:00Now he that ministereth

27:01seed to the sower,

27:03both minister bread

27:04for your food,

27:06and multiply your seed sown,

27:08and increase the fruits

27:10of your righteousness,

27:12being enriched in everything

27:13to all bountifulness,

27:15which causeth through us

27:16thanksgiving to God.

27:19For the administration

27:19of this service

27:21not only supplieth

27:22the want of the saints,

27:24but is abundant also

27:26by many thanksgivings

27:27unto God.

27:28Whiles by the experiment

27:30of this ministration,

27:31they glorify God

27:33for your professed subjection

27:35unto the gospel of Christ,

27:37and for your liberal distribution

27:40unto them,

27:41and unto all men,

27:43and by their prayer for you,

27:45which long after you

27:46for the exceeding grace

27:48of God in you.

27:50Thanks be unto God

27:51for his unspeakable gift.

27:55Chapter 10

27:57Now I, Paul, myself,

28:00beseech you,

28:01by the meekness

28:02and gentleness of Christ,

28:04who in presence

28:04am base among you,

28:06but being absent

28:07am bold toward you,

28:09but I beseech you

28:10that I may not be bold

28:11when I am present

28:12with that confidence

28:13wherewith I think

28:15to be bold against some

28:16which think of us

28:18as if we walked

28:19according to the flesh.

28:21For though we walk

28:22in the flesh,

28:22we do not war

28:24after the flesh.

28:25For the weapons

28:26of our warfare

28:27are not carnal,

28:29but mighty through God

28:30to the pulling down

28:32of strongholds,

28:33casting down imaginations

28:35and every high thing

28:37that exalteth itself

28:39against the knowledge of God,

28:41and bringing into captivity

28:42every thought

28:44to the obedience of Christ,

28:46and having in a readiness

28:47to revenge all disobedience

28:50when your obedience

28:51is fulfilled.

28:53Do ye look on things

28:54after the outward appearance?

28:56If any man trusts to himself

28:58that he is Christ's,

29:00let him of himself

29:01think this again,

29:03that as he is Christ's,

29:05even so are we Christ's.

29:08For though I should boast

29:09somewhat more

29:10of our authority,

29:11which the Lord hath given us

29:13for edification

29:14and not for your destruction,

29:16I should not be ashamed,

29:18that I may not seem

29:19as if I would terrify you

29:21by letters,

29:22for his letters say

29:23they are weighty

29:25and powerful,

29:26but his bodily presence

29:27is weak

29:28and his speech

29:29contemptible.

29:31Let such an one

29:32think this,

29:33that such as we are

29:34in word by letters

29:35when we are absent,

29:37such will we be also

29:39indeed when we are present.

29:42For we dare not

29:43make ourselves

29:44of the number

29:45or compare ourselves

29:46with some

29:47that commend themselves,

29:48but they measuring

29:50themselves by themselves

29:52and comparing themselves

29:53among themselves

29:55are not wise.

29:57But we will not boast

29:58of things

29:59without our measure,

30:00but according

30:01to the measure

30:02of the rule

30:02which God hath

30:03distributed to us,

30:05a measure to reach

30:06even unto you.

30:08For we stretch

30:09not ourselves

30:10beyond our measure

30:11as though we reached

30:12not unto you,

30:13for we are come

30:14as far as to you

30:16also in preaching

30:17the gospel of Christ,

30:19not boasting of things

30:21without our measure,

30:22that is,

30:23of other men's labors,

30:25but having hope

30:26when your faith

30:27is increased

30:28that we shall be

30:29enlarged by you

30:30according to our rule

30:32abundantly,

30:33to preach the gospel

30:34in the regions

30:35beyond you

30:36and not to boast

30:37in another man's

30:38line of things

30:39made ready

30:40to our hand.

30:42But he that glorieth

30:43let him glory

30:44in the Lord,

30:46for not he

30:46that commendeth

30:47himself is approved,

30:49but whom

30:50the Lord commendeth.

30:53Chapter 11

30:54Would to God

30:56ye could bear with me

30:57a little in my folly,

30:59and indeed bear with me,

31:01for I am jealous

31:02over you

31:03with godly jealousy,

31:04for I have espoused

31:06you to one husband

31:07that I may present you

31:08as a chaste virgin

31:10to Christ.

31:11But I fear,

31:12lest by any means,

31:13as the serpent

31:14beguiled Eve

31:16through his subtlety,

31:17so your mind

31:18should be corrupted

31:19from the simplicity

31:20that is in Christ.

31:22For if he that cometh

31:23preaching another Jesus,

31:25whom we have not preached,

31:27or if ye receive

31:28another spirit,

31:29which ye have not received,

31:31or another gospel,

31:32which ye have not accepted,

31:34ye might well bear with him.

31:36For I suppose

31:37I was not a whit

31:39behind the very

31:40chiefest apostles,

31:41for though I be rude

31:43in speech,

31:44yet not in knowledge,

31:45but we have been

31:46throughly made manifest

31:48among you

31:49in all things.

31:51Have I committed

31:52an offence

31:53in abasing myself,

31:54that ye might be exalted

31:56because I have preached

31:57to you

31:57the gospel of God freely?

32:00I robbed other churches,

32:02taking wages of them,

32:03to do you service.

32:05And when I was present

32:07with you

32:07and wanted,

32:08I was chargeable

32:09to no man.

32:11For that which was lacking

32:12to me,

32:13the brethren which came

32:14from Macedonia supplied.

32:16And in all things

32:17I have kept myself

32:19from being burdensome

32:20unto you,

32:21and so will I keep myself.

32:23As the truth of Christ

32:25is in me,

32:26no man shall stop me

32:27of this boasting

32:28in the regions of Achaia.

32:31Wherefore,

32:32because I love you not,

32:33God knoweth,

32:35but what I do

32:36that I will do

32:37that I may cut off occasion

32:38from them

32:39which desire occasion,

32:41that wherein they glory,

32:43they may be found

32:44even as we.

32:46For such are false apostles,

32:48deceitful workers,

32:50transforming themselves

32:51into the apostles of Christ.

32:54And no marvel,

32:55for Satan himself

32:56is transformed

32:57into an angel of light.

33:00Therefore,

33:00it is no great thing

33:02if his ministers

33:02also be transformed

33:04as the ministers

33:05of righteousness,

33:07whose end

33:08shall be according

33:09to their works.

33:10I say again,

33:12let no man

33:12think me a fool,

33:14if otherwise

33:15yet as a fool

33:16receive me,

33:17that I may boast

33:18myself a little.

33:20That which I speak,

33:21I speak it not

33:22after the Lord,

33:23but as it were foolishly,

33:25in this confidence

33:26of boasting.

33:27Seeing that many glory

33:29after the flesh,

33:30I will glory also.

33:32For ye suffer fools gladly,

33:33seeing ye yourselves

33:35are wise.

33:36For ye suffer

33:37if a man bring you

33:39into bondage,

33:40if a man devour you,

33:41if a man take of you,

33:43if a man exalt himself,

33:45if a man smite you

33:46on the face.

33:48I speak as concerning

33:49reproach,

33:50as though we had been weak.

33:52How be it,

33:53wherein soever

33:54any is bold,

33:55I speak foolishly,

33:56I am bold also.

33:58Are they Hebrews?

34:00So am I.

34:01Are they Israelites?

34:03So am I.

34:04Are they the seed of Abraham?

34:07So am I.

34:09Are they ministers of Christ?

34:11I speak as a fool.

34:12I am more,

34:14in labors more abundant,

34:16in stripes above measure,

34:18in prisons more frequent,

34:20in deaths oft.

34:22Of the Jews,

34:23five times received I

34:24forty stripes save one.

34:27Thrice was I beaten with rods,

34:29once was I stoned,

34:31thrice I suffered shipwreck,

34:34a night and a day

34:35have I been in the deep,

34:36in journeyings often,

34:38in perils of waters,

34:41in perils of robbers,

34:43in perils by my own countrymen,

34:45in perils by the heathen,

34:47in perils in the city,

34:49in perils in the wilderness,

34:51in perils in the sea,

34:53in perils among false brethren,

34:55in weariness and painfulness,

34:58in watchings often,

35:00in hunger and thirst,

35:02in fastings often,

35:04in cold and nakedness.

35:06Beside those things that are without,

35:09that which cometh upon me daily,

35:11the care of all the churches,

35:13who is weak,

35:14and am I not weak,

35:16who is offended,

35:18and I burn not?

35:19If I must needs glory,

35:21I will glory of the things

35:23which concern mine infirmities.

35:25The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

35:28which is blessed for evermore,

35:30knoweth that I lie not.

35:32In Damascus,

35:33the governor under Aretas,

35:35the king,

35:35kept the city of the Damascenes

35:37with a garrison,

35:39desirous to apprehend me.

35:41Through a window,

35:42in a basket,

35:43was I let down by the wall,

35:45and escaped his hands.

35:48Chapter 12

35:50It is not expedient for me,

35:52doubtless to glory,

35:54I will come to visions

35:55and revelations of the Lord.

35:57I knew a man in Christ

35:59above fourteen years ago,

36:01whether in the body I cannot tell,

36:03or whether out of the body I cannot tell,

36:06God knoweth,

36:07such an one caught up to the third heaven.

36:10And I knew such a man,

36:12whether in the body or out of the body,

36:14I cannot tell,

36:15God knoweth,

36:16how that he was caught up into paradise,

36:19and heard unspeakable words,

36:22which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

36:25A such an one will I glory,

36:27yet of myself I will not glory,

36:30but in mine infirmities.

36:33For though I would desire to glory,

36:35I shall not be a fool,

36:37for I will say the truth.

36:39But now I forbear,

36:40lest any man should think of me

36:42above that which he seeth me to be,

36:44or that he heareth of me.

36:46And lest I should be exalted above measure

36:48through the abundance of the revelations,

36:51there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,

36:54the messenger of Satan to buffet me,

36:57lest I should be exalted above measure.

37:00For this thing I besought the Lord thrice,

37:04but it might depart from me,

37:06and he said unto me,

37:07My grace is sufficient for thee,

37:10for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

37:15Most gladly, therefore,

37:16will I rather glory in my infirmities

37:19that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

37:23Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities,

37:26in reproaches,

37:28in necessities,

37:29in persecutions,

37:31in distresses for Christ's sake,

37:33for when I am weak,

37:35then am I strong.

37:37I become a fool in glorying,

37:40ye have compelled me,

37:41for I ought to have been commended of you,

37:43for in nothing am I behind

37:45the very chiefest apostles,

37:47though I be nothing.

37:49Truly the signs of an apostle

37:51were wrought among you in all patience,

37:54in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

37:58For what is it wherein ye were inferior

38:00to other churches except it be

38:03that I myself was not burdensome to you,

38:06forgive me this wrong.

38:08Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you,

38:11and I will not be burdensome to you,

38:14for I will seek not yours, but you.

38:17For the children ought not to lay up for the parents,

38:20but the parents for the children.

38:23And I will very gladly spend

38:25and be spent for you,

38:27though the more abundantly I love you,

38:29the less I be loved.

38:31But be it so,

38:33I did not burden you,

38:35nevertheless being crafty,

38:37I caught you with guile.

38:39Did I make a gain of you

38:40by any of them whom I sent unto you?

38:43I desired Titus,

38:44and with him I sent a brother.

38:46Did Titus make a gain of you?

38:48Walked we not in the same spirit?

38:51Walked we not in the same steps?

38:54Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you?

38:57We speak before God in Christ,

39:00but we do all things dearly beloved

39:03for your edifying.

39:05For I fear lest when I come

39:07I shall not find you such as I would,

39:10and that I shall be found unto you

39:12such as ye would not.

39:14Lest there be debates,

39:16envyings,

39:17wraths,

39:18strifes,

39:18backbitings,

39:20whisperings,

39:21swellings,

39:22tumults,

39:22and lest when I come again

39:24my God will humble me among you,

39:27and that I shall bewail many

39:29which have sinned already,

39:31and have not repented

39:32of the uncleanness,

39:34and fornication,

39:35and lasciviousness

39:36which they have committed.

39:39Chapter 13

39:40This is the third time

39:43I am coming to you.

39:45In the mouth of two or three witnesses

39:47shall every word be established.

39:50I told you before,

39:52and foretell you,

39:53as if I were present the second time,

39:55and being absent now,

39:57I write to them

39:58which heretofore have sinned,

40:00and to all other,

40:01that if I come again

40:03I will not spare,

40:05since ye seek a proof of Christ

40:07speaking in me

40:08which to you word is not weak,

40:10but is mighty in you.

40:12For though he was crucified

40:14through weakness,

40:15yet he liveth by the power of God.

40:18For we also are weak in him,

40:21but we shall live with him

40:23by the power of God toward you.

40:26Examine yourselves

40:27whether ye be in the faith,

40:29prove your own selves.

40:32Know ye not your own selves

40:33how that Jesus Christ is in you,

40:36except ye be reprobates?

40:38But I trust that ye shall know

40:40that we are not reprobates.

40:43Now I pray to God

40:44that ye do no evil,

40:46not that we should appear approved,

40:48but that ye should do that

40:49which is honest,

40:51though we be as reprobates.

40:53For we can do nothing

40:54against the truth,

40:55but for the truth.

40:57For we are glad

40:58when we are weak,

40:59and ye are strong,

41:00and this also we wish

41:02even your perfection.

41:04Therefore I write these things

41:06being absent,

41:08lest being present,

41:09I should use sharpness

41:11according to the power

41:12which the Lord hath given me

41:13to edification,

41:15and not to destruction.

41:17Finally, brethren,

41:18farewell.

41:20Be perfect,

41:21be of good comfort,

41:22be of one mind,

41:24live in peace,

41:25and the God of love and peace

41:27shall be with you.

41:29Greet one another

41:30with an holy kiss.

41:32All the saints salute you.

41:33The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

41:36and the love of God

41:38and the communion of the Holy Ghost

41:40be with you all.

41:42Amen.

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