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PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS + +In this Epistle St. Paul comforts those who are now reformed by his +admonitions to them in the former and absolves the incestuous man on +doing penance, whom he had before excommunicated for his crime. Hence he +treats of true penance and of the dignity of the ministers of the New +Testament. He cautions the faithful against false teachers and the +society of infidels. He gives an account of his sufferings and also of +the favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second +Epistle was written in the same year with the first and sent by Titus +from some place in Macedonia. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 1 + +He speaks of his troubles in Asia. His not coming to them was not out of +levity. The constancy and sincerity of his doctrine. + +1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy +our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the +saints that are in all Achaia: + +1:2. Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father +of mercies and the God of all comfort: + +1:4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able +to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we +also are exhorted by God. + +1:5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ +doth our comfort abound. + +1:6. Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and +salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or +whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which +worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. + +1:7. That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are +partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation. + +1:8. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation +which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our +strength, so that we were weary even of life. + +1:9. But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not +trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead. + +1:10. Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in +whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us, + +1:11. You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained +for us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our +behalf. + +1:12. For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in +simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but +in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more +abundantly towards you. + +1:13. For we write no other things to you than what you have read and +known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end. + +1:14. As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you +also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:15. And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that +you might have a second grace: + +1:16. And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to +come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea. + +1:17. Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the +things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there +should be with me, It is, and It is not? + +1:18. But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, +It is, and It is not. + +1:19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by +us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But, +It is, was in him. + +It is, was in him... There was no inconstancy in the doctrine of the +apostles, sometimes, like modern sectaries, saying, It is, and at other +times saying, It is not. But their doctrine was ever the same, one +uniform yea, in Jesus Christ, one Amen, that is, one truth in him. + +1:20. For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by +him, amen to God, unto our glory. + +1:21. Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath +anointed us, is God: + +1:22. Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our +hearts. + +1:23. But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came +not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your +faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 2 + +He grants a pardon to the incestuous man upon his doing penance. + +2:1. But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. + +2:2. For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, +but the same who is made sorrowful by me? + +2:3. And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have +sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having +confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. + +2:4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you +with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you +might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you. + +2:5. And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in +part, that I may not burden you all. + +2:6. To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given +by many. + +2:7. So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort +him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. + +2:8. Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity +towards him. + +2:9. For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of +you, whether you be obedient in all things. + +2:10. And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have +pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in +the person of Christ: + +I also... The apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the +person and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian, +whom before he had put under penance, which pardon consisted in a +releasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin. + +2:11. That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of +his devices. + +2:12. And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door +was opened unto me in the Lord, + +2:13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: +but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia. + +2:14. Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ +Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place. + +2:15. For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are +saved and in them that perish. + +2:16. To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others +the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient? + +The odour of death, etc... The preaching of the apostle, which by its +fragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own +fault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting +that divine call. + +2:17. For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with +sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 3 + +He needs no commendatory letters. The glory of the ministry of the New +Testament. + +3:1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) +epistles of commendation to you, or from you? + +3:2. You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read +by all men: + +3:3. Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by +us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not +in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart. + +3:4. And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God. + +3:5. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of +ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. + +3:6. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in +the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit +quickeneth. + +The letter... Not rightly understood, and taken without the spirit. + +3:7. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon +stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not +steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), +which is made void: + +3:8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory? + +3:9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the +ministration of justice aboundeth in glory. + +3:10. For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified by +reason of the glory that excelleth. + +3:11. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which +remaineth is in glory. + +3:12. Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence. + +3:13. And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of +Israel might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made +void. + +3:14. But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the +selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken +away (because in Christ it is made void). + +3:15. But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon +their heart. + +3:16. But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be +taken away. + +3:17. Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, +there is liberty. + +3:18. But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are +transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of +the Lord. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 4 + +The sincerity of his preaching. His comfort in his afflictions. + +4:1. Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have +obtained mercy, we faint not. + +4:2. But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in +craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the +truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of +God. + +4:3. And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, + +4:4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of +unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is +the image of God, should not shine unto them. + +4:5. For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and +ourselves your servants through Jesus. + +4:6. 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 Christ Jesus. + +4:7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency +may be of the power of God and not of us. + +4:8. In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We +are straitened: but are not destitute. + +4:9. We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: but +we perish not. + +4:10. Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that +the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. + +4:11. For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake: +that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. + +4:12. So then death worketh in us: but life in you. + +4:13. But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, +for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which cause we speak +also: + +4:14. Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with +Jesus and place us with you. + +4:15. For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding +through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God. + +4:16. For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is +corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. + +4:17. For that which is at present momentary and light of our +tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight +of glory. + +4:18. 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. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 5 + +He is willing to leave his earthly mansion to be with the Lord. His +charity to the Corinthians. + +5:1. For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, +that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in +heaven. + +5:2. For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our +habitation that is from heaven. + +5:3. Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked. + +5:4. For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; +because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is +mortal may be swallowed up by life. + +5:5. Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us +the pledge of the Spirit, + +5:6. Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in +the body we are absent from the Lord. + +5:7. (For we walk by faith and not by sight.) + +5:8. But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from +the body and to be present with the Lord. + +5:9. And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him. + +5:10. For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, +that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as +he hath done, whether it be good or evil. + +The proper things of the body... In the particular judgment, immediately +after death, the soul is rewarded or punished according to what it has +done in the body. + +5:11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men: +but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we +are manifest. + +5:12. We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to +glory in our behalf: that you may have somewhat to answer them who glory +in face, and not in heart. + +5:13. For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we +be sober, it is for you. + +5:14. For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one +died for all, then all were dead. + +5:15. And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live +to themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again. + +5:16. Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And +if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so +no longer. + +We know no man according to the flesh... That is, we consider not any +man with regard to his nation, family, kindred, or other natural +qualities or advantages; but only with relation to Christ, and according +to the order of divine charity, in God, and for God. The apostle adds, +that even with respect to Christ himself, he now no longer considers him +according to the flesh, by taking a satisfaction in his being his +countryman; his affection being now purified from all such earthly +considerations. + +5:17. If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed +away. Behold all things are made new. + +5:18. But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by +Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. + +5:19. For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, +not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of +reconciliation. + +5:20. For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting +by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God. + +5:21. Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be +made the justice of God in him. + +Sin for us... That is, to be a sin offering, a victim for sin. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 6 + +He exhorts them to a correspondence with God's grace and not to +associate with unbelievers. + +6:1. And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God +in vain. + +6:2. For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day +of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: +behold, now is the day of salvation. + +6:3. Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed. + +6:4. But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, +in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses, + +6:5. In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in +fastings, + +6:6. In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the +Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned, + +6:7. In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice +on the right hand and on the left: + +6:8. By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as +deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known: + +6:9. As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed: + +6:10. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: +as having nothing and possessing all things. + +6:11. Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged. + +6:12. You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are +straitened. + +6:13. But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be you +also enlarged. + +6:14. Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath +justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? + +6:15. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the +faithful with the unbeliever? + +6:16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are +the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and +walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people. + +6:17. Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the +Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: + +6:18. And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall +be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 7 + +The apostle's affection for the Corinthians. His comfort and joy on +their account. + +7:1. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse +ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting +sanctification in the fear of God. + +7:2. Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we +have overreached no man. + +7:3. I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before that +you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together. + +7:4. Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am +filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our +tribulation. + +7:5. For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest: +but we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within. + +7:6. But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of +Titus. + +7:7. And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith +he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your +zeal for me: so that I rejoiced the more. + +7:8. For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent. +And if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a +time) did make you sorrowful, + +7:9. Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you +were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according +to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. + +7:10. For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast +unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. + +7:11. For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful +according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence, +yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all +things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter. + +7:12. Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that +did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our +carefulness that we have for you. + +7:13. Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation we +did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit +was refreshed by you all. + +7:14. And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put +to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our +boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth. + +7:15. And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the +obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him. + +7:16. I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 8 + +He exhorts them to contribute bountifully to relieve the poor of +Jerusalem. + +8:1. Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath +been given in the churches of Macedonia. + +8:2. That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of +joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their +simplicity. + +Simplicity... That is, sincere bounty and charity. + +8:3. For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their +power, they were willing: + +8:4. With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of the +ministry that is done toward the saints. + +8:5. And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the +Lord, then to us by the will of God; + +8:6. Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he +would finish among you this same grace. + +8:7. That as in all things you abound in faith and word and knowledge +and all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us: so in +this grace also you may abound. + +8:8. I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, +approving also the good disposition of your charity. + +8:9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he +became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich. + +8:10. And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who +have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago. + +8:11. Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is +forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which +you have. + +8:12. For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which +a man hath: not according to that which he hath not. + +8:13. For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but +by an equality. + +8:14. In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that +their abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an +equality, + +8:15. As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that +had little had no want. + +8:16. And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you +in the heart of Titus. + +8:17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation: but, being more careful, +of his own will he went unto you. + +8:18. We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the +gospel through all the churches. + +8:19. And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches +companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, +to the glory of the Lord and our determined will: + +8:20. Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance +which is administered by us. + +8:21. For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also +before men. + +8:22. And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often +proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent: with much +confidence in you, + +8:23. Either for Titus, who is my companion and fellow labourer towards +you, or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ. + +8:24. Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the +evidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 9 + +A further exhortation to almsgiving. The fruits of it. + +9:1. For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is +superfluous for me to write unto you. + +9:2. For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the +Macedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your +emulation hath provoked very many. + +9:3. Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of +concerning you be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) +you may be ready: + +9:4. Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you +unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter. + +9:5. Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they +would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be +ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness. + +9:6. Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: +and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings. + +9:7. Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or +of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. + +9:8. And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, +having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work, + +9:9. As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the +poor: his justice remaineth for ever. + +9:10. And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread +to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits +of your justice: + +9:11. That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all +simplicity which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. + +9:12. Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the +want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the +Lord. + +9:13. By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience of +your confession unto the gospel of Christ and for the simplicity of your +communicating unto them and unto all. + +9:14. And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of +the excellent grace of God in you. + +9:15. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 10 + +To stop the calumny and boasting of false apostles, he set forth the +power of his apostleship. + +10:1. Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of +Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am +bold toward you. + +10:2. But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with +that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who +reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. + +10:3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the +flesh. + +10:4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, +unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, + +10:5. And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of +God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience +of Christ: + +10:6. And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your +obedience shall be fulfilled. + +10:7. See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any +man trust to himself, that he is Christ's let him think this again with +himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also. + +10:8. For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the +Lord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I +should not be ashamed. + +10:9. But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by +epistles, + +10:10. (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but +his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible): + +10:11. Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by +epistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present. + +10:12. For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend +themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves +with ourselves. + +10:13. But we will not glory beyond our measure: but according to the +measure of the rule which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach +even unto you. + +10:14. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached +not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ. + +10:15. Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having +hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our +rule abundantly. + +10:16. Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel: +not to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready +to our hand. + +10:17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. + +10:18. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God +commendeth. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 11 + +He is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians +should be imposed upon by the false apostles. + +11:1. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do +bear with me. + +My folly... So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly +speaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the +apostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed to +his charge. + +11:2. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have +espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin +to Christ. + +11:3. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so +your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in +Christ. + +11:4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not +preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; +or another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear with +him. + +11:5. For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great +apostles. + +11:6. For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all +things we have been made manifest to you. + +11:7. Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be +exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely? + +11:8. I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your +ministry. + +11:9. And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to +no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came +from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being +burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself. + +11:10. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be +broken off in me in the regions of Achaia. + +11:11. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it. + +11:12. But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion +from them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be +found even as we. + +11:13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming +themselves into the apostles of Christ. + +11:14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an +angel of light. + +11:15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as +the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works. + +11:16. I say again (Let no man think me to be foolish: otherwise take me +as one foolish, that I also may glory a little): + +11:17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were +in foolishness, in this matter of glorying. + +11:18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also. + +11:19. For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise. + +11:20. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour +you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you +on the face. + +11:21. I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this +part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also. + +11:22. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They +are the seed of Abraham: so am I. + +11:23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am +more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above +measure, in deaths often. + +11:24. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one. + +11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I +suffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea. + +11:26. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, +in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in +the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils +from false brethren: + +11:27. In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and +thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: + +11:28. Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the +solicitude for all the churches. + +My daily instance... The labours that come in, and press upon me every +day. + +11:29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not +on fire? + +11:30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my +infirmity. + +11:31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for +ever, knoweth that I lie not. + +11:32. At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, +guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me. + +11:33. And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and +so escaped his hands. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 12 + +His raptures and revelations, His being buffeted by Satan. His fear for +the Corinthians. + +12:1. If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to +visions and revelations of the Lord. + +12:2. I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the +body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a +one caught up to the third heaven. + +12:3. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I +know not: God knoweth): + +12:4. That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which +it is not granted to man to utter. + +12:5. For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing +but in my infirmities. + +12:6. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: +for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me +above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. + +12:7. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there +was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. + +12:8. For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart +from me. + +12:9. And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is +made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my +infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. + +Power is made perfect... The strength and power of God more perfectly +shines forth in our weakness and infirmity; as the more weak we are of +ourselves, the more illustrious is his grace in supporting us, and +giving us the victory under all trials and conflicts. + +12:10. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, +in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I +am weak, then am I powerful. + +12:11. I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have +been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are +above measure apostles, although I be nothing. + +12:12. Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all +patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. + +12:13. For what is there that you have had less than the other churches +but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury. + +12:14. Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will +not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, +but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but +the parents for the children. + +12:15. But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: +although loving you more, I be loved less. + +12:16. But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught +you by guile. + +12:17. Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you? + +12:18. I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus +overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the +same steps? + +12:19. Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak +before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your +edification. + +12:20. For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such +as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest +perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, +whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you. + +12:21. Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn +many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the +uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed. + +2 Corinthians Chapter 13 + +He threatens the impenitent, to provoke them to penance. + +13:1. Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of +two or three witnesses shall every word stand. + +13:2. I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to +them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I +will not spare. + +13:3. Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you +is not weak, but is mighty in you? + +13:4. For although 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 towards you. + +13:5. Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. +Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless +perhaps you be reprobates? + +13:6. But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates. + +13:7. Now we pray God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear +approved, but that you may do that which is good and that we may be as +reprobates. + +Reprobates... that is, without proof, by having no occasion of shewing +our power in punishing you. + +13:8. For we can do nothing against the truth: but for the truth. + +13:9. For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we +pray for, your perfection. + +13:10. Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being +present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the +Lord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction. + +13:11. For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be +of one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be with +you. + +13:12. Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you. + +13:13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and the +communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all. 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