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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
 as the waters cover the sea.

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2CO 01:01 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,


  • and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at
  • Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
  • 2CO 01:02 Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father, and
  • [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2CO 01:03 Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
  • Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
  • 2CO 01:04 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.
  • 2CO 01:05 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
  • consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
  • 2CO 01:06 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.
  • 2CO 01:07 And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as
  • ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the
  • consolation.
  • 2CO 01:08 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:
  • 2CO 01:09 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that
  • we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the
  • dead:
  • 2CO 01:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth
  • deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us];
  • 2CO 01:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for
  • the gift [bestowed] upon us by the means of many persons thanks
  • may be given by many on our behalf.
  • 2CO 01:12 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.
  • 2CO 01:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye
  • read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to
  • the end;
  • 2CO 01:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are
  • your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the
  • Lord Jesus.
  • 2CO 01:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you
  • before, that ye might have a second benefit;
  • 2CO 01:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again
  • out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way
  • toward Judaea.
  • 2CO 01:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use
  • lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according
  • to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
  • 2CO 01:18 But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not
  • yea and nay.
  • 2CO 01:19 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.
  • 2CO 01:20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in
  • him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
  • 2CO 01:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and
  • hath anointed us, [is] God;
  • 2CO 01:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
  • Spirit in our hearts.
  • 2CO 01:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that
  • to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
  • 2CO 01:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but
  • are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
  • 2CO 02:01 But I determined this with myself, that I would not
  • come again to you in heaviness.
  • 2CO 02:02 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh
  • me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
  • 2CO 02:03 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I
  • should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having
  • confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.
  • 2CO 02:04 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.
  • 2CO 02:05 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me,
  • but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
  • 2CO 02:06 Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which
  • [was inflicted] of many.
  • 2CO 02:07 So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive
  • [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be
  • swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
  • 2CO 02:08 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your]
  • love toward him.
  • 2CO 02:09 For to this end also did I write, that I might know
  • the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
  • 2CO 02:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for
  • if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes
  • [forgave I it] in the person of Christ;
  • 2CO 02:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are
  • not ignorant of his devices.
  • 2CO 02:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach]
  • Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
  • 2CO 02:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus
  • my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
  • Macedonia.
  • 2CO 02:14 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.
  • 2CO 02:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them
  • that are saved, and in them that perish:
  • 2CO 02:16 To the one [we are] the savour of death unto death;
  • and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who [is]
  • sufficient for these things?
  • 2CO 02:17 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.
  • 2CO 03:01 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we,
  • as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters]
  • of commendation from you?
  • 2CO 03:02 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and
  • read of all men:
  • 2CO 03:03 [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.
  • 2CO 03:04 And such trust have we through Christ to God ward:
  • 2CO 03:05 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any
  • thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
  • 2CO 03:06 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.
  • 2CO 03:07 But if the ministration of death, written [and]
  • engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel
  • could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of
  • his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:
  • 2CO 03:08 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be
  • rather glorious?
  • 2CO 03:09 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory,
  • much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
  • 2CO 03:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in
  • this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
  • 2CO 03:11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much
  • more that which remaineth [is] glorious.
  • 2CO 03:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
  • plainness of speech:
  • 2CO 03:13 And not as Moses, [which] put a veil over his face,
  • that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end
  • of that which is abolished:
  • 2CO 03:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day
  • remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old
  • testament; which [veil] is done away in Christ.
  • 2CO 03:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil
  • is upon their heart.
  • 2CO 03:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil
  • shall be taken away.
  • 2CO 03:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of
  • the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
  • 2CO 03:18 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.
  • 2CO 04:01 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have
  • received mercy, we faint not;
  • 2CO 04:02 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.
  • 2CO 04:03 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are
  • lost:
  • 2CO 04:04 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds
  • of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel
  • of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
  • 2CO 04:05 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
  • Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • 2CO 04:06 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of
  • darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the
  • knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • 2CO 04:07 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that
  • the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  • 2CO 04:08 [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed;
  • [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;
  • 2CO 04:09 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
  • destroyed;
  • 2CO 04:10 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.
  • 2CO 04:11 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.
  • 2CO 04:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
  • 2CO 04:13 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;
  • 2CO 04:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall
  • raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.
  • 2CO 04:15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the
  • abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to
  • the glory of God.
  • 2CO 04:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward
  • man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
  • 2CO 04:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
  • worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of
  • glory;
  • 2CO 04:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but
  • at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen
  • [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
  • 2CO 05:01 For we know that if our earthly house of [this]
  • tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house
  • not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • 2CO 05:02 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be
  • clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
  • 2CO 05:03 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found
  • naked.
  • 2CO 05:04 For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being
  • burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon,
  • that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
  • 2CO 05:05 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing
  • [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  • 2CO 05:06 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that,
  • whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • 2CO 05:07 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
  • 2CO 05:08 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be
  • absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  • 2CO 05:09 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent,
  • we may be accepted of him.
  • 2CO 05:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
  • Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his]
  • body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or
  • bad.
  • 2CO 05:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade
  • men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are
  • made manifest in your consciences.
  • 2CO 05:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give
  • you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat
  • to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
  • 2CO 05:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God:
  • or whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause.
  • 2CO 05:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we
  • thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
  • 2CO 05:15 And [that] he died for all, that they which live
  • should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which
  • died for them, and rose again.
  • 2CO 05:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:
  • yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
  • henceforth know we [him] no more.
  • 2CO 05:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new
  • creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
  • become new.
  • 2CO 05:18 And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us
  • to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
  • reconciliation;
  • 2CO 05:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world
  • unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath
  • committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • 2CO 05:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God
  • did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye
  • reconciled to God.
  • 2CO 05:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no
  • sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
  • 2CO 06:01 We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech
  • [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
  • 2CO 06:02 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted,
  • and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now
  • [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.)
  • 2CO 06:03 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be
  • not blamed:
  • 2CO 06:04 But in all [things] approving ourselves as the
  • ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
  • necessities, in distresses,
  • 2CO 06:05 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours,
  • in watchings, in fastings;
  • 2CO 06:06 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by
  • kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
  • 2CO 06:07 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the
  • armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
  • 2CO 06:08 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good
  • report: as deceivers, and [yet] true;
  • 2CO 06:09 As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and,
  • behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
  • 2CO 06:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet
  • making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all
  • things.
  • 2CO 06:11 O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our
  • heart is enlarged.
  • 2CO 06:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in
  • your own bowels.
  • 2CO 06:13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto
  • [my] children,) be ye also enlarged.
  • 2CO 06:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
  • for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
  • what communion hath light with darkness?
  • 2CO 06:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what
  • part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
  • 2CO 06:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
  • for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I
  • will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God,
  • and they shall be my people.
  • 2CO 06:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
  • separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and
  • I will receive you,
  • 2CO 06:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my
  • sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • 2CO 07:01 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let
  • us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
  • perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • 2CO 07:02 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted
  • no man, we have defrauded no man.
  • 2CO 07:03 I speak not [this] to condemn [you]: for I have said
  • before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with [you].
  • 2CO 07:04 Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great
  • [is] my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am
  • exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
  • 2CO 07:05 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had
  • no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without [were]
  • fightings, within [were] fears.
  • 2CO 07:06 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast
  • down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
  • 2CO 07:07 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation
  • wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest
  • desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I
  • rejoiced the more.
  • 2CO 07:08 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not
  • repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same
  • epistle hath made you sorry, though [it were] but for a season.
  • 2CO 07:09 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that
  • ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly
  • manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
  • 2CO 07:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not
  • to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
  • 2CO 07:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed
  • after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea,
  • [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea,
  • [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea,
  • [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to
  • be clear in this matter.
  • 2CO 07:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not
  • for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that
  • suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God
  • might appear unto you.
  • 2CO 07:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and
  • exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his
  • spirit was refreshed by you all.
  • 2CO 07:14 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.
  • 2CO 07:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you,
  • whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear
  • and trembling ye received him.
  • 2CO 07:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in
  • all [things].
  • 2CO 08:01 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of
  • God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
  • 2CO 08:02 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance
  • of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of
  • their liberality.
  • 2CO 08:03 For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond
  • [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;
  • 2CO 08:04 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive
  • the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering
  • to the saints.
  • 2CO 08:05 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave
  • their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
  • 2CO 08:06 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun,
  • so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
  • 2CO 08:07 Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith,
  • and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in]
  • your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
  • 2CO 08:08 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the
  • forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
  • 2CO 08:09 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
  • though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye
  • through his poverty might be rich.
  • 2CO 08:10 And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient
  • for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be
  • forward a year ago.
  • 2CO 08:11 Now therefore perform the doing [of it]; that as
  • [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance
  • also out of that which ye have.
  • 2CO 08:12 For if there be first a willing mind, [it is]
  • accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to
  • that he hath not.
  • 2CO 08:13 For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye
  • burdened:
  • 2CO 08:14 But by an equality, [that] now at this time your
  • abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance
  • also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:
  • 2CO 08:15 As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had
  • nothing over; and he that [had gathered] little had no lack.
  • 2CO 08:16 But thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest
  • care into the heart of Titus for you.
  • 2CO 08:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being
  • more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
  • 2CO 08:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise
  • [is] in the gospel throughout all the churches;
  • 2CO 08:19 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:
  • 2CO 08:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this
  • abundance which is administered by us:
  • 2CO 08:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of
  • the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
  • 2CO 08:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have
  • oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more
  • diligent, upon the great confidence which [I have] in you.
  • 2CO 08:23 Whether [any do inquire] of Titus, [he is] my partner
  • and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren [be inquired of,
  • they are] the messengers of the churches, [and] the glory of
  • Christ.
  • 2CO 08:24 Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches,
  • the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
  • 2CO 09:01 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
  • superfluous for me to write to you:
  • 2CO 09:02 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I
  • boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year
  • ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
  • 2CO 09:03 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of
  • you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be
  • ready:
  • 2CO 09:04 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and
  • find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed
  • in this same confident boasting.
  • 2CO 09:05 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the
  • brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up before
  • hand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same
  • might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of]
  • covetousness.
  • 2CO 09:06 But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall
  • reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap
  • also bountifully.
  • 2CO 09:07 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so
  • let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a
  • cheerful giver.
  • 2CO 09:08 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:
  • 2CO 09:09 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath
  • given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
  • 2CO 09:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both
  • minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and
  • increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
  • 2CO 09:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness,
  • which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
  • 2CO 09:12 For the administration of this service not only
  • supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
  • thanksgivings unto God;
  • 2CO 09:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they
  • glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of
  • Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto
  • all [men];
  • 2CO 09:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for
  • the exceeding grace of God in you.
  • 2CO 09:15 Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.
  • 2CO 10:01 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:
  • 2CO 10:02 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.
  • 2CO 10:03 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after
  • the flesh:
  • 2CO 10:04 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but
  • mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
  • 2CO 10:05 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;
  • 2CO 10:06 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience,
  • when your obedience is fulfilled.
  • 2CO 10:07 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.
  • 2CO 10:08 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:
  • 2CO 10:09 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by
  • letters.
  • 2CO 10:10 For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and
  • powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech
  • contemptible.
  • 2CO 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.
  • 2CO 10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or
  • compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they
  • measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves
  • among themselves, are not wise.
  • 2CO 10:13 But we will not boast of things without [our] measure,
  • but according to the measure of the rule which God hath
  • distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
  • 2CO 10:14 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:
  • 2CO 10:15 Not boasting of things without [our] measure, [that
  • is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is
  • increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our
  • rule abundantly,
  • 2CO 10:16 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you,
  • [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to
  • our hand.
  • 2CO 10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
  • 2CO 10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but
  • whom the Lord commendeth.
  • 2CO 11:01 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my]
  • folly: and indeed bear with me.
  • 2CO 11:02 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I
  • have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a
  • chaste virgin to Christ.
  • 2CO 11:03 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
  • beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be
  • corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2CO 11:04 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom
  • we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which
  • ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not
  • accepted, ye might well bear with [him].
  • 2CO 11:05 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very
  • chiefest apostles.
  • 2CO 11:06 But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in
  • knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you
  • in all things.
  • 2CO 11:07 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye
  • might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of
  • God freely?
  • 2CO 11:08 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to
  • do you service.
  • 2CO 11:09 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].
  • 2CO 11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me
  • of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2CO 11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 2CO 11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off
  • occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they
  • glory, they may be found even as we.
  • 2CO 11:13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers,
  • transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
  • 2CO 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into
  • an angel of light.
  • 2CO 11:15 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.
  • 2CO 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise,
  • yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
  • 2CO 11:17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord,
  • but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
  • 2CO 11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory
  • also.
  • 2CO 11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves]
  • are wise.
  • 2CO 11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a
  • man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself,
  • if a man smite you on the face.
  • 2CO 11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been
  • weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I
  • am bold also.
  • 2CO 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so
  • [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.
  • 2CO 11:23 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.
  • 2CO 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes]
  • save one.
  • 2CO 11:25 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;
  • 2CO 11:26 [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;
  • 2CO 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in
  • hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • 2CO 11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which
  • cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
  • 2CO 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and
  • I burn not?
  • 2CO 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things
  • which concern mine infirmities.
  • 2CO 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is
  • blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
  • 2CO 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept
  • the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to
  • apprehend me:
  • 2CO 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by
  • the wall, and escaped his hands.
  • 2CO 12:01 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will
  • come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • 2CO 12:02 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.
  • 2CO 12:03 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out
  • of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
  • 2CO 12:04 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard
  • unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
  • 2CO 12:05 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not
  • glory, but in mine infirmities.
  • 2CO 12:06 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.
  • 2CO 12:07 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.
  • 2CO 12:08 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it
  • might depart from me.
  • 2CO 12:09 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.
  • 2CO 12:10 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.
  • 2CO 12:11 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.
  • 2CO 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you
  • in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
  • 2CO 12:13 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.
  • 2CO 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and
  • I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you:
  • for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the
  • parents for the children.
  • 2CO 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you;
  • though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • 2CO 12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless,
  • being crafty, I caught you with guile.
  • 2CO 12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent
  • unto you?
  • 2CO 12:18 I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did
  • Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit?
  • [walked we] not in the same steps?
  • 2CO 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we
  • speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly
  • beloved, for your edifying.
  • 2CO 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you
  • such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye
  • would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
  • backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
  • 2CO 12:21 [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.
  • 2CO 13:01 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the
  • mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
  • 2CO 13:02 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were
  • present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them
  • which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come
  • again, I will not spare:
  • 2CO 13:03 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which
  • to you ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
  • 2CO 13:04 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he
  • liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we
  • shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
  • 2CO 13:05 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove
  • your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus
  • Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • 2CO 13:06 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not
  • reprobates.
  • 2CO 13:07 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we
  • should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is
  • honest, though we be as reprobates.
  • 2CO 13:08 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the
  • truth.
  • 2CO 13:09 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong:
  • and this also we wish, [even] your perfection.
  • 2CO 13:10 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.
  • 2CO 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good
  • comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and
  • peace shall be with you.
  • 2CO 13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
  • 2CO 13:13 All the saints salute you.
  • 2CO 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of
  • God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all.
  • Amen.