Today’s
Reading: 2Corinthians 10 – 13 (KJV)
2Corinthians 10
2Co 10:1 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 10:2 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 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh:
2Co 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds;)
2Co 10:5 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 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2Co 10:7 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 10:8 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 10:9 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 a 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 themseves, 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.
2Corinthians 11
2Co 11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little
in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2Co 11:2 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 11:3 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 11:4 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 11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very
chiefest apostles.
2Co 11:6 But though I
be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge;
but we have been throughly made manifest among you in
all things.
2Co 11:7 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 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them,
to do you service.
2Co 11:9 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?
2Co 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the
things which concern mine infirmities.
2Co 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which is blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2Co 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison,
desirous to apprehend me:
2Co 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let
down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
2Corinthians 12
2Co 12:1 It is not expedient
for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2Co 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years
ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot
tell: God knoweth;) such a one caught up to the third
heaven.
2Co 12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body,
or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
2Co 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and
heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
2Co 12:5 Of such a one will I glory: yet of myself I
will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
2Co 12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall
not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now
I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that
he heareth of me.
2Co 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the
flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure.
2Co 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice,
that it might depart from me.
2Co 12:9 And he said unto me, My
grace is sufficient
for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in
my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2Co 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake:
for when I am weak, then am I strong.
2Co 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have
compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind
the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
2Co 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought
among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
2Co 12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to
other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you?
forgive me this wrong.
2Co 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to
you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for
the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the
children.
2Co 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for
you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
2Co 12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you:
nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
2Co 12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any
of them whom I sent unto you?
2Co 12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of
you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked
we not in the same steps?
2Co 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto
you? we speak before God in Christ: but we
do all things, dearly beloved, for your
edifying.
2Co 12:20 For I fear, lest when I come, I shall not
find you such as I would, and that I
shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there
be debates, envyings,
wraths, strifes, backbitings,
whisperings, swellings, tumults:
2Co 12:21 And
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned
already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and
lasciviousness which they have committed.
2Corinthians 13
2Co 13:1 This is
the third time I am coming to you. In
the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
2Co 13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I
were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which
heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not
spare:
2Co 13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in
me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
2Co 13:4 For though 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 toward you.
2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;
prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobates?
2Co 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are
not reprobates.
2Co 13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not
that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest,
though we be as reprobates.
2Co 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but
for the truth.
2Co 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are
strong: and this also we wish, even your
perfection.
2Co 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent,
lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the
Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
2Co 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be
of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace
shall be with you.
2Co 13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
2Co 13:13 All the saints salute you.
2Co 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be
with you all. Amen.
