2 Corinthians 2:3

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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 those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

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.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

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

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

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

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.

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 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.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

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

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.

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

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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,

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

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.

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

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

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.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

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.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

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!”

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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;

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

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.

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.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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.

I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

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.

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,

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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

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.

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

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.

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.

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

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

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.