2 Corinthians 1:15

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

This will we do, if God permits.

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.