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“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18 NIV84) Have you ever been through one…
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” (2 Cor. 4:7 NIV) Some of you may know of the contemporary Christian music group Jars of Clay. It is one of my favorites, but it is not the reason I chose this…
“For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 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 Christ.” —…
“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” — 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV84) In our verses for today, Paul contrasted the radiant glory of the Lord that beamed from Moses’ face and the glory…
“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” –2 Corinthians 3:6 (NIV84) Paul was so adamant that we make a proper distinction between law and Gospel. Throughout his ministry he had the Judaisers (Jewish…
“You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show 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. “— 2 Corinthians 3:2, 3…
“If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven – if there was anything to forgive – I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.” — 2 Corinthians 2:10, 11 (NIV84) We…
“I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.” — 2 Corinthians 2:8 (NIV84) A believer of the Corinthian church fell into some kind of unrepentant sin. He refused to respond to the leaders of the Church, so Paul previously told them that the man had to face church discipline. And that is exactly…
“Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” — 2 Corinthians 1:21, 22 (NIV84) One of my favorite verses is Isaiah 43:1: “Fear not,…
“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him, the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.” — 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV84) I don’t know how the Apostle Paul did it! Here he was explaining to the finicky Corinthians why his travel plans…