INDUCTIVE BIBLE STUDY: BOOK OF 2nd CORINTHIANS 1-13
By Dennis Schmidt 1/2008
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This paper discusses the book of 2nd Corinthians. The first letter was lost (1 Corinthians 5:9). The second letter is 1st Corinthians. Paul established the church in 50 AD on his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1-17). The gentile/Jewish church had many of the same problems churches have today. All scriptures are from the King James' version Bible.
SECOND CORINTHIANS THEME:
- THE AUTHORITY & DEFENSE OF PAUL’S APOSTLESHIP & MINISTRY.
CHAPTER THEMES & ELEMENTS
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OUTLINE |
TOPICS |
CHAPTER(S) THEMES |
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I) Author & salutations |
Introduction |
(1:1-2) Paul an apostle of
Jesus by God’s will with all saints to |
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II) Paul’s ministry |
A) Suffering for Christ
{1:3-11} B) Conduct & motive { C) Forgiveness {2:5-11} D) Guiding by Spirit { E) New Testament glory
{3:1-18} F) Christ center by Spirit
{4:1-18} G) Immortality &
reconciliation {5:1-6:10} H) Exhortation { |
(1:3-7:16) Paul’s ministry is shown by your deeds of love to Jesus, comfort to others in tribulation as God comforts you & all His promises are yes and amen while He anoints you |
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III) Collection |
A) Macedonian’s
example {8:1-6} B) Corinthians exhortation {8:7-9:15} |
(8:1-9:15) As you Sow/reap as God supplies do His will & abound in faith, love, & grace |
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IV) Paul’s apostleship |
A) Accusers {10:1-18} B) Paul’s boasting
{11:1-12:21} C) Worship {13:1-10} |
(10:1-13:10) God has given Paul apostle power, rapture to see unspeakable things, & writings with missionary trips |
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V) Conclusion |
Instructions & greetings |
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AUTHOR: Apostle Paul DATE: 57 AD FROM:
PURPOSE: COLLECTION TO CHURCH ON ISSUES &
AUTHORITY.
1) False Teachers: Judiziers
teaching law gospel & no resurrection
2) Paul's Ministry:
His apostleship & his integrity
3) Collection for poor
Christians: Generosity encouraged
KEY VERSES:
KEY WORD(S)/VERSES:
[ comfort ] (1, 2, 7, 13); [ afflicted ] (1, 2, 4, 6, 8); [ suffer ] (1, 7, 11); [ sorrow ] (2, 6, 7); [ boast ] (7, 8, 9, 10, 11); [ confidence ] (1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11); [ commend ] (3, 4, 5, 10, 12);
[ death ] (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11);
[ life ] (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
13); [ heart
] (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9); [ joy
] (1, 2, 7, 8);
[ ministry ] (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11);
[ grace ] (1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13);
[ Titus ] (2, 7, 8, 12); [ Satan ] (2, 11, 12); { glory } (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12); [ prayer ] (1, 5, 8, 9, 13);
[ truth ] (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10,
11, 12, 13); spirit (1, 3, 4,) ; [ abundantly ] (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12)
OUTLINE FOR SECOND CORINTHIANS
I) SALUTIONS: {2
CORINTHIANS 1:1 – 1:2}
II) CHARACTERISTICS FOR
AN APOSTLE’S MINISTRY: {2 CORINTHIANS 1:3 – 7:16}
A) SUFFERING FOR CHRIST:
{2 CORINTHIANS 1:3 – 1:11}
B) PAUL’S CONDUCT
& MOTIVES: {2 CORINTHIANS
C)
FORGIVENESS: {2 CORINTHIANS 2:5 – 2:11}
D)
GUIDING BY SPIRIT: {2 CORINTHIANS
E) NEW TESTAMENT GLORY:
{2 CORINTHIANS 3:1 – 3:18}
F) CHRIST CENTERED BY
SPIRIT: {2 CORINTHIANS 4:1 – 4:18}
G) IMMORTALITY &
RECONCILATION: {2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 –
H) EXHORTATION: {2
CORINTHIANS
III) COLLECTIONS: {2
CORINTHIANS 8:1 – 9:15}
A)
MACEDONIAN’S EXAMPLE: {2 CORINTHIANS 8:1 – 8:5}
B)
CORINTHIANS EXHORTION: {2 CORINTHIANS 8:6 – 9:15}
IV)
PAUL’S APOSTLESHIP: {2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 – 13:10}
A)
PAUL’S ACCUSERS: {2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 – 10:18}
B) PAUL FORCED INTO
FULLISH BOASTING: {2 CORINTHIANS 11:1 – 12:21}
C)
PAUL’S VISIT: {2 CORINTHIANS 13:1 – 13:10}
V)
CONCLUSION: {2 CORINTHIANS
PAUL
WROTE SECOND CORINTHIANS IN
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
Practical Practical
Focus on
Theology on marriage, spiritual gifts, church order, &
freedom Theology
of false teachers, apostle authority, & spirit of God in Christian life
Christian advice for pagan influence in church Christian
advice for dealing with false teachers
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MISC: PAUL’S QUALIFICATIONS {2 CORINTHIANS 1:1 – 13:14}
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GOD’S CHOSE PAUL
(1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
and Timothy our brother, unto the
(2) Now he which stablisheth us
with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; {2
Corinthians
(3) Who also hath made
us able ministers of the new testament; not of the
letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth,
but the spirit giveth life. {2 Corinthians
3:6}
(4) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, we faint not; {2
Corinthians 4:1}
(5) And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath
given to us the ministry of reconciliation; {2 Corinthians
(6) But in all things
approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {2 Corinthians 6:4}
(7) Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. {2 Corinthians
11:15}
(8) Are they ministers
of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons
more frequent, in deaths oft. {2 Corinthians 11:23}
PAUL HAS
HOLY SPIRIT
(1) Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest
of the Spirit in our hearts. {2
Corinthians 1:22}
(2) Who also hath made
us able ministers of the new testament; not of the
letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth,
but the spirit giveth life.
(3) Now the Lord is
that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
{2 Corinthians 3:17}
(4) But we all,
with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into
the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of
the Lord. {2 Corinthians 3:18}
(5) We having the same
spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have
I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; {2 Corinthians 4:13}
(6) Now he that hath
wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given
unto us the earnest of the Spirit. {2 Corinthians 5:5}
(7) By pureness, by
knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned, {2 Corinthians 6:6}
(8) The grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. {2
Corinthians 13:14}
PAUL DEPENDS ON GOD ALONE
(1) For our rejoicing is
this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity,
not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our
conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. {2 Corinthians
1:12}
(2) Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his
knowledge by us in every place. {2 Corinthians 2:14}
(3) Not that we are sufficient
of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is
of God; {2 Corinthians 3:5}
(4) Who also hath made
us able ministers of the new testament; not of the
letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth,
but the spirit giveth life. {2 Corinthians 3:6}
(5) But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of
the power may be of God, and not of us. {2 Corinthians 4:7}
(5) We then, as
workers together with him, beseech you also
that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. {2 Corinthians 6:1}
(6) Moreover, brethren, we
do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of
(7) And not that only,
but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace,
which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration
of your ready mind: {2 Corinthians 8:19}
(8) And God is able
to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
{2 Corinthians 9:8}
(9) And by their prayer
for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
{2 Corinthians 9:14}
(10) And he said unto
me, My grace is sufficient for thee:
for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. {2 Corinthians 12:9}
PAUL WAS
GIVEN APOSTLE AUTHORITY
(1) Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,
who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold
toward you: {2 Corinthians 10:1}
(2) But I beseech you, that
I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I
think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked
according to the flesh. {2 Corinthians 10:2}
(3) For though we walk
in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: {2 Corinthians 10:3}
(4) (For the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling
down of strong holds;) {2 Corinthians 10:4}
(5) Casting down
imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ; {2 Corinthians 10:5}
(6) And having in a readiness
to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. {2
Corinthians 10:6}
(7) Do ye look on
things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he
is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's,
even so are we Christ's. {2 Corinthians 10:7}
(8) For though I should
boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for
edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
{2 Corinthians 10:8}
(9) That I may not seem
as if I would terrify you by letters. {2 Corinthians 10:9}
(10) For his letters,
say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. {2 Corinthians
10:10}
(11) Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by
letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we
are present. {2 Corinthians 10:11}
(12) I am become a fool in
glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for
in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles,
though I be nothing. {2 Corinthians 12:11}
(13) Truly the signs of
an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders,
and mighty deeds. {2 Corinthians 12:12}
(14) Therefore I write
these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according
to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to
destruction. {2 Corinthians 13:10}
PAUL’S
DIVINE VISIONS
(1) It is not expedient
for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the
Lord. {2 Corinthians 12:1}
(2) I knew a man in
Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or
whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one
caught up to the third heaven. {2 Corinthians 12:2}
(3) And I knew such a
man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
{2 Corinthians 12:3}
(4) How that he was
caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is
not lawful for a man to utter. {2 Corinthians 12:4}
(5) Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,
but in mine infirmities. {2 Corinthians 12:5}
(6) For though I would
desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth:
but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which
he seeth me to be, or that he
heareth of me. {2 Corinthians 12:6}
(7) And lest I should be exalted above
measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me
a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I
should be exalted above measure. {2 Corinthians 12:7}
PAUL’S
MINISTRY TO CORINTHIANS
(1) And to pass by you into
(2) For the Son of God,
Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was
not yea and nay, but in him was yea. {2
Corinthians 1:19}
(3) For all things are
for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. {2 Corinthians 4:15}
(4) Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,
who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold
toward you: {2 Corinthians 10:1}
5) For we stretch not
ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for
we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
{2 Corinthians
(6) But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but
we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things. {2
Corinthians 11:6}
(7) Truly the signs of
an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and
wonders, and mighty deeds. {2 Corinthians 12:12}
(8) For what is it
wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I
myself was not burdensome to you? forgive
me this wrong. {2 Corinthians 12:13}
(9) And lest, when
I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I
shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the
uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
{2 Corinthians 12:21}
PAUL
LOVES THE CHURCH
(1) For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote
unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye
might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. {2 Corinthians 2:4}
(2) Ye are our epistle
written in our hearts, known and read of all men: {2 Corinthians
3:2}
(3) Forasmuch as ye
are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not
in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. {2
Corinthians 3:3}
(4) For the love of
Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that
if one died for all, then were all dead: {2 Corinthians
(5) By pureness, by
knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy
Ghost, by love unfeigned, {2 Corinthians 6:6}
(6) O ye Corinthians,
our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. {2 Corinthians
6:11}
(7) Ye are not
straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. {2
Corinthians 6:12}
(8) Now
for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye
also enlarged. {2 Corinthians 6:13}
(9) I speak not this to
condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts
to die and live with you. {2 Corinthians 7:3}
(10) Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. {2 Corinthians 11:11}
(11) And I will very gladly
spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the
less I be loved. {2 Corinthians 12:15}
PAUL’S
BLAMELESS CHARACTER AND ACTIONS
(1) For our rejoicing is
this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God,
we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. {2
Corinthians 1:12}
(2) But have renounced
the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. {2
Corinthians 4:2}
(3) Giving no offence
in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: {2 Corinthians
6:3}
(4) But in all things
approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {2 Corinthians
6:4}
(5) Receive us; we have
wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no
man. {2 Corinthians 7:2}
(6) Avoiding this, that
no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: {2
Corinthians
(7) Providing for
honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the
sight of men. {2 Corinthians 8:21}
(8) Have I committed an
offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have
preached to you the gospel of God freely? {2 Corinthians 11:7}
(9) I robbed other
churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
{2 Corinthians 11:8}
(10) And when I was present
with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which
was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in
all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so
will I keep myself. {2 Corinthians 11:9}
PAUL WAS TRUTHFUL
(1) But as God is true, our word
toward you was not yea and nay. {2 Corinthians 1:18}
(2) For we are not as
many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but
as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. {2 Corinthians
2:17}
(2) But have renounced the
hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling
the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. {2 Corinthians 4:2}
(3) By the word of
truth, by the power of God, by the armour
of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, {2 Corinthians 6:7}
(4) By honour and dishonour, by
evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
{2 Corinthians 6:8}
(5) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we
have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. {2 Corinthians 7:2}
(6) For if I have boasted
any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake
all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before
Titus, is found a truth. {2 Corinthians 7:14}
(7) As the truth of
Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of
Achaia. {2 Corinthians 11:10}
(8) For though I would
desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth:
but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which
he seeth me to be, or that he
heareth of me. {2 Corinthians 12:6}
(9) Truly the signs of
an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders,
and mighty deeds. {2 Corinthians 12:12}
(10) For we can do
nothing against the truth, but for the truth. {2 Corinthians
13:8}
PAUL WAS
PERSECUTED & SUFFERS FOR THE FAITH
(1) Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be
able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we
ourselves are comforted of God. {2 Corinthians 1:4}
(2) For as the
sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. {2 Corinthians 1:5}
(3) And whether we be afflicted, it is for your
consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the
same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for
your consolation and salvation. {2 Corinthians 1:6}
(4) And our hope of you is
stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of
the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. {2
Corinthians 1:7}
(5) For we would not,
brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that
we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we
despaired even of life: {2 Corinthians 1:8}
(6) But we had the
sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in God which raiseth the dead: {2
Corinthians 1:9}
(7) Who delivered us
from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he
will yet deliver us; {2 Corinthians
(8) We are troubled
on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed,
but not in despair; {2 Corinthians 4:8}
(9) Persecuted, but
not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; {2 Corinthians
4:9}
(10) Always bearing
about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our body. {2 Corinthians 4:10}
(11) For we which live
are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that
the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.{2
Corinthians 4:11}
(12) So then death worketh in us, but life in you. {2 Corinthians
4:12}
(13) But in all things
approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {2 Corinthians
6:4}
(14) In stripes, in
imprisonments, in tumults, in labours,
in watchings, in fastings;
{2 Corinthians 6:5}
(15) As unknown, and yet
well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened,
and not killed; {2 Corinthians 6:9}
(16) As sorrowful,
yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich;
as having nothing, and yet possessing all
things. {2 Corinthians 6:10}
(17) For, when we were
come into
(18) In
(19) And through Who is weak a window in a basket was I let down by the wall,
and escaped his hands. {2 Corinthians 11:33}
PAUL’S
INDIVIDUAL TRIALS
(1) We are troubled
on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed,
but not in despair; {2 Corinthians 4:8}
(2) Persecuted, but
not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; {2 Corinthians
4:9}
(3) Always bearing
about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our body. {2 Corinthians 4:10}
(4) For we which live are alway delivered
unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh. {2 Corinthians 4:11}
(5) So then death worketh in us, but life in you. {2 Corinthians 4:12}
(6) But in all things
approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {
(7) In stripes, in
imprisonments, in tumults, in labours,
in watchings, in fastings;
{
(8) By pureness, by
knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy
Ghost, by love unfeigned, {
(9) By the word of truth, by
the power of God, by the armour of
righteousness on the right hand and on the left, {
(10) By honour and dishonour, by
evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
{
(11) As unknown,
and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we
live; as chastened, and not killed; {
(12) As sorrowful, yet
alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making
many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing
all things. {
(13) Are they ministers
of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure,
in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. {2 Corinthians
11:23}
(14) Of the Jews five
times received I forty stripes save one. {2 Corinthians 11:24}
(15) Thrice was I
beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck,
a night and a day I have been in the deep; {2 Corinthians
(16) In journeyings often, in perils
of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils
by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen,
in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils
among false brethren; {2 Corinthians 11:26}
(17) In weariness and
painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness. {2 Corinthians 11:27}
(18) Beside those things
that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all
the churches. {2 Corinthians 11:28}
(19),
and I am not weak? who is offended,
and I burn not? {2 Corinthians 11:29}
(20) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern
mine infirmities. {2 Corinthians 11:30}
(21) And lest I should
be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there
was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet
me, lest I should be exalted above measure. {2 Corinthians 12:7}
(22) For this thing I
besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. {2
Corinthians 12:8}
(23) And he said
unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:
for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore
will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me. {2 Corinthians 12:9}
(24) Therefore I take
pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak,
then am I strong. {2 Corinthians 12:10}
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