2 Corinthians 3:2

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.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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 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.

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,

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

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.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

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.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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!”

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

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.

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

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.

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.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

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

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

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,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

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 also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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

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

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 we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

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?

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.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

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

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.