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Greeting
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother: To the church of God at Corinth, with all the saints who are throughout Achaia.
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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The God of Comfort
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.
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For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
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A Clear Conscience
Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.
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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you—Silvanus, Timothy, and I—did not become “Yes and no.” On the contrary, in him it is always “Yes.”
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Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us.
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I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your faith.
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For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart—not to cause you pain, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.
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Anyone you forgive, I do too. For what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—it is for your benefit in the presence of Christ,
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A Trip to Macedonia
When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord opened a door for me,
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A Ministry of Life or Death
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.
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For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
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For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.
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You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God—not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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Paul’s Competence
Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God.
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New Covenant Ministry
Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,
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For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.
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Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness.
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but their minds were hardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.
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We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.
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For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
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And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore speak.
