30 day study of the words of Paul
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Day 14
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?
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