Daily Reading

2 Corinthians 2:12-7:16

2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach] Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my
brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
Macedonia.

2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to
triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his
knowledge by us in every place.

2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that
are saved, and in them that perish:

2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to
the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient
for these things?

2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but
as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
Christ.

3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of
commendation from you?

3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of
all men:

3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle
of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
tables of the heart.

3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing
as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth,
but the spirit giveth life.

3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in
stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance; which glory was to be done away:

3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
glorious?

3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much
more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more
that which remaineth is glorious.

3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
that which is abolished:

3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth
the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away in Christ.

3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is
upon their heart.

3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall
be taken away.

3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty.

3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the
glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, we faint not;

4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not
walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we
are perplexed, but not in despair;

4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord
Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in
our body.

4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus'
sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
mortal flesh.

4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is
written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also
believe, and therefore speak;

4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise
up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant
grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the
glory of God.

4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man
perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory;

4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens.

5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
with our house which is from heaven:

5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being
burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon,
that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God,
who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we
are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent
from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may
be accepted of him.

5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ;
that every one may receive the things done in his body,
according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made
manifest in your consciences.

5:12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or
whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus
judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for
them, and rose again.

5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea,
though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth
know we him no more.

5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new.

5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation;

5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath
committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye
reconciled to God.

5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you
also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in
the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is
the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not
blamed:

6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of
God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in
distresses,

6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
watchings, in fastings;

6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by
the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of
righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as
deceivers, and yet true;

6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we
live; as chastened, and not killed;

6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

6:11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart
is enlarged.

6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my
children,) be ye also enlarged.

6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness?

6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath
he that believeth with an infidel?

6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for
ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.

6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you,

6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no
man, we have defrauded no man.

7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before,
that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my
glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding
joyful in all our tribulation.

7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no
rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were
fightings, within were fears.

7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,
comforted us by the coming of Titus;

7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith
he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire,
your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced
the more.

7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent,
though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath
made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye
sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly
manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be
repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a
godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what
clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what
fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea,
what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to
be clear in this matter.

7:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and
exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his
spirit was refreshed by you all.

7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not
ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so
our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you,
whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear
and trembling ye received him.

7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all
things.



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