Longing for Home (2 Cor 5:1-10)
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2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (ESV) 5 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4 For …
Read More →Promises Made, Promises Kept (Isaiah 40:1-11, 27-31)
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Isaiah 40:1-11, 27-31 (ESV) Comfort for God’s People 40 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; …
Read More →Getting What We Don’t Deserve (Psalm 73)
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Psalm 73 (ESV) 73 A Psalm of Asaph. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped. 3 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For they have no pangs until death; …
Read More →Do Not Lose Heart (2 Cor 4)
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2 Corinthians 4 (ESV) 4 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our …
Read More →Out With the Old, In With the New (2 Cor 3:7-18)
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2 Corinthians 3:7-18 (ESV) 7 Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, …
Read More →Self-Promotion, Self-Confidence, Self-Sufficiency (2 Cor 3:1-6)
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2 Corinthians 3:1-6 (ESV) 3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with …
Read More →What’s That Smell? (2 Cor 2:12-17)
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2 Corinthians 2:12-17 (ESV) 12 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, 13 my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. 14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ …
Read More →Missing the Mark (2 Cor 2:5-11)
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2 Corinthians 2:5-11 (ESV) 5 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. 6 For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, 7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 So I …
Read More →Simplicity, Integrity, and Faithfulness (2 Cor 1:12-2:4)
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2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4 (ESV) 12 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. 13 For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will …
Read More →Strength in Weakness: Comfort for Affliction (2 Cor 1:1-11)
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2 Corinthians 1:1-11 (ESV) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of …
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