Jesus in 2 Corinthians

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1. 1:1

   Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

2. 1:2

   Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3. 1:3

   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

4. 1:5

   For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

5. 1:14

   as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.

6. 1:19

   For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”

7. 1:21

   Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

8. 2:10

   If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,

9. 2:12

   Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord,

10. 2:14

    But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

11. 2:15

    For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

12. 2:17

    For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.

13. 3:3

    It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

14. 3:4

    Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.

15. 3:14

    But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

16. 3:16

    But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

17. 3:17

    Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

18. 3:18

    And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

19. 4:4

    The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

20. 4:5

    For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

21. 4:6

    For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

22. 4:10

    We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

23. 4:11

    For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

24. 4:14

    knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.

25. 5:6

    Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

26. 5:8

    We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

27. 5:10

    For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

28. 5:11

    Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

29. 5:14

    For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

30. 5:16

    So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

31. 5:17

    Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

32. 5:18

    All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

33. 5:19

    that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

34. 5:20

    Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

35. 6:15

    What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

36. 6:17

    “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

37. 8:5

    And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, through the will of God.

38. 8:9

    For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

39. 8:19

    More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the gracious offering we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.

40. 8:21

    For we are taking great care to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

41. 8:23

    As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you. As for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

42. 9:13

    Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.

43. 10:1

    Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.

44. 10:5

    We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

45. 10:8

    For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

46. 10:14

    We are not overstepping our bounds, as if we had not come to you. Indeed, we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

47. 10:17

    Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

48. 10:18

    For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

49. 11:2

    I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

50. 11:3

    I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

51. 11:4

    For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.

52. 11:10

    As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

53. 11:13

    For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

54. 11:17

    In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

55. 11:23

    Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

56. 11:31

    The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.

57. 12:1

    I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

58. 12:2

    I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

59. 12:8

    Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

60. 12:9

    But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

61. 12:19

    Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.

62. 13:3

    since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you but is powerful among you.

63. 13:5

    Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?

64. 13:10

    This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I am present I will not need to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.

65. 13:14

    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.