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Introduction |
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2 Corinthians 1:1
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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will
of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with
all the saints who are throughout Achaia: |
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2 Corinthians 1:2
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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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2 Corinthians 1:3
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, |
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2 Corinthians 1:4
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who comforts us in all our affliction so that
we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted by God. |
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2 Corinthians 1:5
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For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours
in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. |
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2 Corinthians 1:6
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But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort
and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective
in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; |
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2 Corinthians 1:7
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and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing
that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. |
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2 Corinthians 1:8
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For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren,
of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively,
beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; |
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2 Corinthians 1:9
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indeed, we had the sentence of death within
ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
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2 Corinthians 1:10
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who delivered us from so great a peril of death,
and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver
us, |
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2 Corinthians 1:11
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you also joining in helping us through your
prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor
bestowed on us through the prayers of many. |
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Paul's Integrity |
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2 Corinthians 1:12
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For our proud confidence is this: the testimony
of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom
but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially
toward you. |
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2 Corinthians 1:13
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For we write nothing else to you than what you
read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end; |
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2 Corinthians 1:14
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just as you also partially did understand us,
that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord
Jesus. |
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2 Corinthians 1:15
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In this confidence I intended at first to come
to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing; |
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2 Corinthians 1:16
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that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and
again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to
Judea. |
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2 Corinthians 1:17
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Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended
to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so
that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? |
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2 Corinthians 1:18
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But as God is faithful, our word to you is not
yes and no. |
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2 Corinthians 1:19
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For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached
among you by us--by me and Silvanus and Timothy--was not yes and no, but is yes
in Him. |
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2 Corinthians 1:20
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For as many as are the promises of God, in Him
they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through
us. |
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2 Corinthians 1:21
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Now He who establishes us with you in Christ
and anointed us is God, |
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2 Corinthians 1:22
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who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in
our hearts as a pledge. |
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2 Corinthians 1:23
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But I call God as witness to my soul, that to
spare you I did not come again to Corinth. |
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2 Corinthians 1:24
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Not that we lord it over your faith, but are
workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm. |
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