Love Restores
2 Corinthians 2:7–8: So that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
Sufficient Discipline
2 Corinthians 2:5–6: But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe. This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man.
Shepherd Tears
2 Corinthians 2:1–4: But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? And I wrote this very thing to you, …
The Spirit in Our Hearts
2 Corinthians 1:21–24: Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no …
God’s Promises Are Yes
2 Corinthians 18–20:#: But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God …
True Commitment is Tested
2 Corinthians 1:15–17: And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit—to pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea. Therefore, when I was planning …
Simplicity & Sincerity
2 Corinthians 1:12–14: For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. For we are not writing any other things to you …
He Will Deliver Us
2 Corinthians 1:10–11: Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us, you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us …
We Trusted God
2 Corinthians 1:9: Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
Burdened Beyond Measure
2 Corinthians 1:8: For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.