2 Corinthians 12:15

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

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.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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.

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

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

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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.

The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

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.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

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.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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.

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

So then death works in us, but life in you.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.