{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-passage-template-js","path":"/2cor","result":{"data":{"neo4j":{"Book":[{"title":"2 Corinthians","bookOrder":47,"chapters":[{"title":"2Cor 1","chapterNum":1,"osisRef":"2Cor.1","verses":[{"verseId":47001001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"[Paul](/person/paul_2479), an apostle of [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905) by the will of [God](/person/god_1324), and [Timothy](/person/timotheus_2863) _our_ brother, unto the church of [God](/person/god_1324) which is at [Corinth](/place/corinth_306), with all the saints which are in all [Achaia](/place/achaia_16):","osisRef":"2Cor.1.1"},{"verseId":47001002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Grace _be_ to you and peace from [God](/person/god_1324) our [Father](/person/god_1324), and _from_ the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.1.2"},{"verseId":47001004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.1.4"},{"verseId":47001005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"For as the sufferings of [Christ](/person/jesus_905) abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.1.5"},{"verseId":47001006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And whether we be afflicted, _it_ _is_ for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, _it_ _is_ for your consolation and salvation.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.6"},{"verseId":47001007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And our hope of you _is_ stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so _shall_ _ye_ _be_ also of the consolation.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.7"},{"verseId":47001008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in [Asia](/place/asia_108), that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:","osisRef":"2Cor.1.8"},{"verseId":47001009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in [God](/person/god_1324) which raiseth the dead:","osisRef":"2Cor.1.9"},{"verseId":47001010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver _us_;","osisRef":"2Cor.1.10"},{"verseId":47001011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift _bestowed_ upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.11"},{"verseId":47001012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of [God](/person/god_1324), we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.12"},{"verseId":47001013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;","osisRef":"2Cor.1.13"},{"verseId":47001014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also _are_ ours in the day of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.1.14"},{"verseId":47001015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;","osisRef":"2Cor.1.15"},{"verseId":47001016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And to pass by you into [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747), and to come again out of [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747) unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward [Judaea](/place/judea_657).","osisRef":"2Cor.1.16"},{"verseId":47001017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?","osisRef":"2Cor.1.17"},{"verseId":47001018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"But _as_ [God](/person/god_1324) _is_ true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.18"},{"verseId":47001019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"For the [Son](/person/jesus_905) of [God](/person/god_1324), [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905), who was preached among you by us, _even_ by me and [Silvanus](/person/silas_2740) and [Timotheus](/person/timotheus_2863), was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.19"},{"verseId":47001020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"For all the promises of [God](/person/god_1324) in him _are_ yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of [God](/person/god_1324) by us.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.20"},{"verseId":47001021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Now he which stablisheth us with you in [Christ](/person/jesus_905), and hath anointed us, _is_ [God](/person/god_1324);","osisRef":"2Cor.1.21"},{"verseId":47001022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) in our hearts.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.22"},{"verseId":47001023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Moreover I call [God](/person/god_1324) for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto [Corinth](/place/corinth_306).","osisRef":"2Cor.1.23"},{"verseId":47001024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.","osisRef":"2Cor.1.24"}]},{"title":"2Cor 2","chapterNum":2,"osisRef":"2Cor.2","verses":[{"verseId":47002001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.1"},{"verseId":47002002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?","osisRef":"2Cor.2.2"},{"verseId":47002003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is _the_ _joy_ of you all.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.3"},{"verseId":47002004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.4"},{"verseId":47002005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.5"},{"verseId":47002006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Sufficient to such a man _is_ this punishment, which _was_ _inflicted_ of many.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.6"},{"verseId":47002007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"So that contrariwise ye _ought_ rather to forgive _him_, and comfort _him_, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.7"},{"verseId":47002008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm _your_ love toward him.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.8"},{"verseId":47002009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.9"},{"verseId":47002010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"To whom ye forgive any thing, I _forgive_ also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave _it_, for your sakes _forgave_ _I_ _it_ in the person of [Christ](/person/jesus_905);","osisRef":"2Cor.2.10"},{"verseId":47002011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Lest [Satan](/person/satan_2476) should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.11"},{"verseId":47002012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Furthermore, when I came to [Troas](/place/troas_1182) to _preach_ [Christ’s](/person/god_1324) gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905),","osisRef":"2Cor.2.12"},{"verseId":47002013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not [Titus](/person/titus_2869) my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747).","osisRef":"2Cor.2.13"},{"verseId":47002014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Now thanks _be_ unto [God](/person/god_1324), which always causeth us to triumph in [Christ](/person/jesus_905), and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.","osisRef":"2Cor.2.14"},{"verseId":47002015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"For we are unto [God](/person/god_1324) a sweet savour of [Christ](/person/jesus_905), in them that are saved, and in them that perish:","osisRef":"2Cor.2.15"},{"verseId":47002016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"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?","osisRef":"2Cor.2.16"},{"verseId":47002017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of [God](/person/god_1324): but as of sincerity, but as of [God](/person/god_1324), in the sight of [God](/person/god_1324) speak we in [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.2.17"}]},{"title":"2Cor 3","chapterNum":3,"osisRef":"2Cor.3","verses":[{"verseId":47003001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some _others_, epistles of commendation to you, or _letters_ of commendation from you?","osisRef":"2Cor.3.1"},{"verseId":47003002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:","osisRef":"2Cor.3.2"},{"verseId":47003003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"_Forasmuch_ _as_ _ye_ _are_ manifestly declared to be the epistle of [Christ](/person/jesus_905) ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the living [God](/person/god_1324); not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.3"},{"verseId":47003004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"And such trust have we through [Christ](/person/jesus_905) to God-ward:","osisRef":"2Cor.3.4"},{"verseId":47003005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency _is_ of [God](/person/god_1324);","osisRef":"2Cor.3.5"},{"verseId":47003006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.6"},{"verseId":47003007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"But if the ministration of death, written _and_ engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) could not stedfastly behold the face of [Moses](/person/moses_2108) for the glory of his countenance; which _glory_ was to be done away:","osisRef":"2Cor.3.7"},{"verseId":47003008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?","osisRef":"2Cor.3.8"},{"verseId":47003009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"For if the ministration of condemnation _be_ glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.9"},{"verseId":47003010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.10"},{"verseId":47003011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"For if that which is done away _was_ glorious, much more that which remaineth _is_ glorious.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.11"},{"verseId":47003012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:","osisRef":"2Cor.3.12"},{"verseId":47003013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"And not as [Moses](/person/moses_2108), _which_ put a vail over his face, that the children of [Israel](/person/israel_682) could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:","osisRef":"2Cor.3.13"},{"verseId":47003014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"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](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.3.14"},{"verseId":47003015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"But even unto this day, when [Moses](/person/moses_2108) is read, the vail is upon their heart.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.15"},{"verseId":47003016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Nevertheless when it shall turn to the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), the vail shall be taken away.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.16"},{"verseId":47003017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Now the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) is that [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400): and where the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) _is_, there _is_ liberty.","osisRef":"2Cor.3.17"},{"verseId":47003018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), are changed into the same image from glory to glory, _even_ as by the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400) of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.3.18"}]},{"title":"2Cor 4","chapterNum":4,"osisRef":"2Cor.4","verses":[{"verseId":47004001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;","osisRef":"2Cor.4.1"},{"verseId":47004002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of [God](/person/god_1324) deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.4.2"},{"verseId":47004003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:","osisRef":"2Cor.4.3"},{"verseId":47004004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"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](/person/jesus_905), who is the image of [God](/person/god_1324), should shine unto them.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.4"},{"verseId":47004005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"For we preach not ourselves, but [Christ](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) the [Lord](/person/jesus_905); and ourselves your servants for [Jesus’](/person/jesus_905) sake.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.5"},{"verseId":47004006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"For [God](/person/god_1324), 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](/person/god_1324) in the face of [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.4.6"},{"verseId":47004007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of [God](/person/god_1324), and not of us.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.7"},{"verseId":47004008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"_We_ _are_ troubled on every side, yet not distressed; _we_ _are_ perplexed, but not in despair;","osisRef":"2Cor.4.8"},{"verseId":47004009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;","osisRef":"2Cor.4.9"},{"verseId":47004010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Always bearing about in the body the dying of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905), that the life also of [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) might be made manifest in our body.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.10"},{"verseId":47004011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"For we which live are alway delivered unto death for [Jesus’](/person/jesus_905) sake, that the life also of [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.11"},{"verseId":47004012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"So then death worketh in us, but life in you.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.12"},{"verseId":47004013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"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;","osisRef":"2Cor.4.13"},{"verseId":47004014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Knowing that he which raised up the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) shall raise up us also by [Jesus](/person/jesus_905), and shall present _us_ with you.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.14"},{"verseId":47004015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"For all things _are_ for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.4.15"},{"verseId":47004016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward _man_ is renewed day by day.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.16"},{"verseId":47004017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding _and_ eternal weight of glory;","osisRef":"2Cor.4.17"},{"verseId":47004018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.4.18"}]},{"title":"2Cor 5","chapterNum":5,"osisRef":"2Cor.5","verses":[{"verseId":47005001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"For we know that if our earthly house of _this_ tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of [God](/person/god_1324), an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.1"},{"verseId":47005002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:","osisRef":"2Cor.5.2"},{"verseId":47005003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.3"},{"verseId":47005004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.4"},{"verseId":47005005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing _is_ [God](/person/god_1324), who also hath given unto us the earnest of the [Spirit](/person/holy_spirit_7400).","osisRef":"2Cor.5.5"},{"verseId":47005006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Therefore _we_ _are_ always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the [Lord](/person/jesus_905):","osisRef":"2Cor.5.6"},{"verseId":47005007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"(For we walk by faith, not by sight):","osisRef":"2Cor.5.7"},{"verseId":47005008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"We are confident, _I_ _say_, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the [Lord](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.5.8"},{"verseId":47005009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.9"},{"verseId":47005010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of [Christ](/person/jesus_905); that every one may receive the things _done_ in _his_ body, according to that he hath done, whether _it_ _be_ good or bad.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.10"},{"verseId":47005011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Knowing therefore the terror of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto [God](/person/god_1324); and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.11"},{"verseId":47005012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.12"},{"verseId":47005013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"For whether we be beside ourselves, _it_ _is_ to [God](/person/god_1324): or whether we be sober, _it_ _is_ for your cause.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.13"},{"verseId":47005014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"For the love of [Christ](/person/jesus_905) constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:","osisRef":"2Cor.5.14"},{"verseId":47005015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.15"},{"verseId":47005016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known [Christ](/person/jesus_905) after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we _him_ no more.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.16"},{"verseId":47005017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Therefore if any man _be_ in [Christ](/person/jesus_905), _he_ _is_ a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.17"},{"verseId":47005018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And all things _are_ of [God](/person/god_1324), who hath reconciled us to himself by [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905), and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;","osisRef":"2Cor.5.18"},{"verseId":47005019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"To wit, that [God](/person/god_1324) was in [Christ](/person/jesus_905), reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.19"},{"verseId":47005020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Now then we are ambassadors for [Christ](/person/jesus_905), as though [God](/person/god_1324) did beseech _you_ by us: we pray _you_ in [Christ’s](/person/god_1324) stead, be ye reconciled to [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.5.20"},{"verseId":47005021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"For he hath made him _to_ _be_ sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of [God](/person/god_1324) in him.","osisRef":"2Cor.5.21"}]},{"title":"2Cor 6","chapterNum":6,"osisRef":"2Cor.6","verses":[{"verseId":47006001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"We then, _as_ workers together _with_ _him_, beseech _you_ also that ye receive not the grace of [God](/person/god_1324) in vain.","osisRef":"2Cor.6.1"},{"verseId":47006002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"(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).","osisRef":"2Cor.6.2"},{"verseId":47006003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:","osisRef":"2Cor.6.3"},{"verseId":47006004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"But in all _things_ approving ourselves as the ministers of [God](/person/god_1324), in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,","osisRef":"2Cor.6.4"},{"verseId":47006005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;","osisRef":"2Cor.6.5"},{"verseId":47006006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the [Holy](/person/holy_spirit_7400) Ghost, by love unfeigned,","osisRef":"2Cor.6.6"},{"verseId":47006007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"By the word of truth, by the power of [God](/person/god_1324), by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,","osisRef":"2Cor.6.7"},{"verseId":47006008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and _yet_ true;","osisRef":"2Cor.6.8"},{"verseId":47006009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"As unknown, and _yet_ well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;","osisRef":"2Cor.6.9"},{"verseId":47006010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and _yet_ possessing all things.","osisRef":"2Cor.6.10"},{"verseId":47006011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"O _ye_ Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.","osisRef":"2Cor.6.11"},{"verseId":47006012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.","osisRef":"2Cor.6.12"},{"verseId":47006013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto _my_ children), be ye also enlarged.","osisRef":"2Cor.6.13"},{"verseId":47006014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?","osisRef":"2Cor.6.14"},{"verseId":47006015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And what concord hath [Christ](/person/jesus_905) with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?","osisRef":"2Cor.6.15"},{"verseId":47006016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And what agreement hath the temple of [God](/person/god_1324) with idols? for ye are the temple of the living [God](/person/god_1324); as [God](/person/god_1324) hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in _them_; and I will be their [God](/person/god_1324), and they shall be my people.","osisRef":"2Cor.6.16"},{"verseId":47006017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), and touch not the unclean _thing_; and I will receive you,","osisRef":"2Cor.6.17"},{"verseId":47006018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And will be a [Father](/person/god_1324) unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the [Lord](/person/god_1324) [Almighty](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.6.18"}]},{"title":"2Cor 7","chapterNum":7,"osisRef":"2Cor.7","verses":[{"verseId":47007001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"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](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.7.1"},{"verseId":47007002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.2"},{"verseId":47007003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"I speak not _this_ to condemn _you_: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with _you_.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.3"},{"verseId":47007004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.4"},{"verseId":47007005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"For, when we were come into [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747), our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without _were_ fightings, within _were_ fears.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.5"},{"verseId":47007006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Nevertheless [God](/person/god_1324), that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of [Titus](/person/titus_2869);","osisRef":"2Cor.7.6"},{"verseId":47007007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.7"},{"verseId":47007008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.8"},{"verseId":47007009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.9"},{"verseId":47007010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.10"},{"verseId":47007011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.11"},{"verseId":47007012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"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](/person/god_1324) might appear unto you.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.12"},{"verseId":47007013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of [Titus](/person/titus_2869), because his spirit was refreshed by you all.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.13"},{"verseId":47007014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"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](/person/titus_2869), is found a truth.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.14"},{"verseId":47007015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.15"},{"verseId":47007016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all _things_.","osisRef":"2Cor.7.16"}]},{"title":"2Cor 8","chapterNum":8,"osisRef":"2Cor.8","verses":[{"verseId":47008001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of [God](/person/god_1324) bestowed on the churches of [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747);","osisRef":"2Cor.8.1"},{"verseId":47008002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.2"},{"verseId":47008003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"For to _their_ power, I bear record, yea, and beyond _their_ power _they_ _were_ willing of themselves;","osisRef":"2Cor.8.3"},{"verseId":47008004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and _take_ _upon_ _us_ the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.4"},{"verseId":47008005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"And _this_ _they_ _did_, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), and unto us by the will of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.8.5"},{"verseId":47008006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Insomuch that we desired [Titus](/person/titus_2869), that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.6"},{"verseId":47008007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Therefore, as ye abound in every _thing_, _in_ faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and _in_ all diligence, and _in_ your love to us, _see_ that ye abound in this grace also.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.7"},{"verseId":47008008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.8"},{"verseId":47008009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"For ye know the grace of our [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905), that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.9"},{"verseId":47008010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"And herein I give _my_ advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.10"},{"verseId":47008011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Now therefore perform the doing _of_ _it_; that as _there_ _was_ a readiness to will, so _there_ _may_ _be_ a performance also out of that which ye have.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.11"},{"verseId":47008012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"For if there be first a willing mind, _it_ _is_ accepted according to that a man hath, _and_ not according to that he hath not.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.12"},{"verseId":47008013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"For _I_ _mean_ not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:","osisRef":"2Cor.8.13"},{"verseId":47008014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"But by an equality, _that_ now at this time your abundance _may_ _be_ _a_ _supply_ for their want, that their abundance also may be _a_ _supply_ for your want: that there may be equality:","osisRef":"2Cor.8.14"},{"verseId":47008015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"As it is written, He that _had_ _gathered_ much had nothing over; and he that _had_ _gathered_ little had no lack.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.15"},{"verseId":47008016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But thanks _be_ to [God](/person/god_1324), which put the same earnest care into the heart of [Titus](/person/titus_2869) for you.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.16"},{"verseId":47008017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.17"},{"verseId":47008018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise _is_ in the gospel throughout all the churches;","osisRef":"2Cor.8.18"},{"verseId":47008019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"And not _that_ only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same [Lord](/person/jesus_905), and _declaration_ _of_ your ready mind:","osisRef":"2Cor.8.19"},{"verseId":47008020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:","osisRef":"2Cor.8.20"},{"verseId":47008021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), but also in the sight of men.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.21"},{"verseId":47008022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which _I_ _have_ in you.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.22"},{"verseId":47008023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Whether _any_ _do_ _enquire_ of [Titus](/person/titus_2869), _he_ _is_ my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren _be_ _enquired_ _of_, _they_ _are_ the messengers of the churches, _and_ the glory of [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.8.23"},{"verseId":47008024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.","osisRef":"2Cor.8.24"}]},{"title":"2Cor 9","chapterNum":9,"osisRef":"2Cor.9","verses":[{"verseId":47009001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:","osisRef":"2Cor.9.1"},{"verseId":47009002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747), that [Achaia](/place/achaia_16) was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.2"},{"verseId":47009003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:","osisRef":"2Cor.9.3"},{"verseId":47009004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.4"},{"verseId":47009005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as _a_ _matter_ _of_ bounty, and not as _of_ covetousness.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.5"},{"verseId":47009006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But this _I_ _say_, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.6"},{"verseId":47009007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, _so_ _let_ _him_ _give_; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for [God](/person/god_1324) loveth a cheerful giver.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.7"},{"verseId":47009008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"And [God](/person/god_1324) _is_ able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all _things_, may abound to every good work:","osisRef":"2Cor.9.8"},{"verseId":47009009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.9"},{"verseId":47009010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for _your_ food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness);","osisRef":"2Cor.9.10"},{"verseId":47009011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.9.11"},{"verseId":47009012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto [God](/person/god_1324);","osisRef":"2Cor.9.12"},{"verseId":47009013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify [God](/person/god_1324) for your professed subjection unto the gospel of [Christ](/person/jesus_905), and for _your_ liberal distribution unto them, and unto all _men_;","osisRef":"2Cor.9.13"},{"verseId":47009014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of [God](/person/god_1324) in you.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.14"},{"verseId":47009015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Thanks _be_ unto [God](/person/god_1324) for his unspeakable gift.","osisRef":"2Cor.9.15"}]},{"title":"2Cor 10","chapterNum":10,"osisRef":"2Cor.10","verses":[{"verseId":47010001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Now I [Paul](/person/paul_2479) myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of [Christ](/person/jesus_905), who in presence _am_ base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:","osisRef":"2Cor.10.1"},{"verseId":47010003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:","osisRef":"2Cor.10.3"},{"verseId":47010004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"(For the weapons of our warfare _are_ not carnal, but mighty through [God](/person/god_1324) to the pulling down of strong holds);","osisRef":"2Cor.10.4"},{"verseId":47010005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of [God](/person/god_1324), and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of [Christ](/person/jesus_905);","osisRef":"2Cor.10.5"},{"verseId":47010006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.6"},{"verseId":47010007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is [Christ’s](/person/god_1324), let him of himself think this again, that, as he _is_ [Christ’s](/person/god_1324), even so _are_ we [Christ’s](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"2Cor.10.7"},{"verseId":47010008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:","osisRef":"2Cor.10.8"},{"verseId":47010009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.9"},{"verseId":47010010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"For _his_ letters, say they, _are_ weighty and powerful; but _his_ bodily presence _is_ weak, and _his_ speech contemptible.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.10"},{"verseId":47010011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such _will_ _we_ _be_ also in deed when we are present.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.11"},{"verseId":47010012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.12"},{"verseId":47010013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"But we will not boast of things without _our_ measure, but according to the measure of the rule which [God](/person/god_1324) hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.13"},{"verseId":47010014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"For we stretch not ourselves beyond _our_ _measure_, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in _preaching_ the gospel of [Christ](/person/jesus_905):","osisRef":"2Cor.10.14"},{"verseId":47010015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Not boasting of things without _our_ measure, _that_ _is_, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,","osisRef":"2Cor.10.15"},{"verseId":47010016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"To preach the gospel in the _regions_ beyond you, _and_ not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.16"},{"verseId":47010017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"But he that glorieth, let him glory in the [Lord](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.10.17"},{"verseId":47010018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) commendeth.","osisRef":"2Cor.10.18"}]},{"title":"2Cor 11","chapterNum":11,"osisRef":"2Cor.11","verses":[{"verseId":47011001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Would to [God](/person/god_1324) ye could bear with me a little in _my_ folly: and indeed bear with me.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.1"},{"verseId":47011002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present _you_ _as_ a chaste virgin to [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.11.2"},{"verseId":47011003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled [Eve](/person/eve_1231) through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.11.3"},{"verseId":47011004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"For if he that cometh preacheth another [Jesus](/person/jesus_905), whom we have not preached, or _if_ ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with _him_.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.4"},{"verseId":47011005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.5"},{"verseId":47011006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But though _I_ _be_ rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.6"},{"verseId":47011007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of [God](/person/god_1324) freely?","osisRef":"2Cor.11.7"},{"verseId":47011008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"I robbed other churches, taking wages _of_ _them_, to do you service.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.8"},{"verseId":47011009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from [Macedonia](/place/macedonia_747) supplied: and in all _things_ I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and _so_ will I keep _myself_.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.9"},{"verseId":47011010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"As the truth of [Christ](/person/jesus_905) is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of [Achaia](/place/achaia_16).","osisRef":"2Cor.11.10"},{"verseId":47011011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Wherefore? because I love you not? [God](/person/god_1324) knoweth.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.11"},{"verseId":47011012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.12"},{"verseId":47011013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"For such _are_ false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of [Christ](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.11.13"},{"verseId":47011014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"And no marvel; for [Satan](/person/satan_2476) himself is transformed into an angel of light.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.14"},{"verseId":47011015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Therefore _it_ _is_ no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.15"},{"verseId":47011016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.16"},{"verseId":47011017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"That which I speak, I speak _it_ not after the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.17"},{"verseId":47011018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.18"},{"verseId":47011019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye _yourselves_ are wise.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.19"},{"verseId":47011020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour _you_, if a man take _of_ _you_, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.20"},{"verseId":47011021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.21"},{"verseId":47011022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Are they Hebrews? so _am_ I. Are they Israelites? so _am_ I. Are they the seed of [Abraham](/person/abraham_58)? so _am_ I.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.22"},{"verseId":47011023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"Are they ministers of [Christ](/person/jesus_905)? (I speak as a fool) I _am_ more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.23"},{"verseId":47011024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Of the Jews five times received I forty _stripes_ save one.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.24"},{"verseId":47011025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;","osisRef":"2Cor.11.25"},{"verseId":47011026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"_In_ journeyings often, _in_ perils of waters, _in_ perils of robbers, _in_ perils by _mine_ _own_ countrymen, _in_ perils by the heathen, _in_ perils in the city, _in_ perils in the wilderness, _in_ perils in the sea, _in_ perils among false brethren;","osisRef":"2Cor.11.26"},{"verseId":47011027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.27"},{"verseId":47011028,"verseNum":28,"mdText":"Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.28"},{"verseId":47011029,"verseNum":29,"mdText":"Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?","osisRef":"2Cor.11.29"},{"verseId":47011030,"verseNum":30,"mdText":"If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.30"},{"verseId":47011031,"verseNum":31,"mdText":"The [God](/person/god_1324) and [Father](/person/god_1324) of our [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905), which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.31"},{"verseId":47011032,"verseNum":32,"mdText":"In [Damascus](/place/damascus_322) the governor under [Aretas](/person/aretas_297) the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:","osisRef":"2Cor.11.32"},{"verseId":47011033,"verseNum":33,"mdText":"And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.","osisRef":"2Cor.11.33"}]},{"title":"2Cor 12","chapterNum":12,"osisRef":"2Cor.12","verses":[{"verseId":47012001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"2Cor.12.1"},{"verseId":47012002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"I knew a man in [Christ](/person/jesus_905) above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: [God](/person/god_1324) knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.2"},{"verseId":47012003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: [God](/person/god_1324) knoweth);","osisRef":"2Cor.12.3"},{"verseId":47012004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.4"},{"verseId":47012005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.5"},{"verseId":47012006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but _now_ I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me _to_ _be_, or _that_ he heareth of me.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.6"},{"verseId":47012007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of [Satan](/person/satan_2476) to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.7"},{"verseId":47012008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"For this thing I besought the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) thrice, that it might depart from me.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.8"},{"verseId":47012009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of [Christ](/person/jesus_905) may rest upon me.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.9"},{"verseId":47012010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for [Christ’s](/person/god_1324) sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.10"},{"verseId":47012011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.11"},{"verseId":47012012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.12"},{"verseId":47012013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except _it_ _be_ that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.13"},{"verseId":47012014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.14"},{"verseId":47012015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.15"},{"verseId":47012016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.16"},{"verseId":47012017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?","osisRef":"2Cor.12.17"},{"verseId":47012018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"I desired [Titus](/person/titus_2869), and with _him_ I sent a brother. Did [Titus](/person/titus_2869) make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? _walked_ _we_ not in the same steps?","osisRef":"2Cor.12.18"},{"verseId":47012019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before [God](/person/god_1324) in [Christ](/person/jesus_905): but _we_ _do_ all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.19"},{"verseId":47012020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and _that_ I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest _there_ _be_ debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:","osisRef":"2Cor.12.20"},{"verseId":47012021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"_And_ lest, when I come again, my [God](/person/god_1324) will humble me among you, and _that_ I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.","osisRef":"2Cor.12.21"}]},{"title":"2Cor 13","chapterNum":13,"osisRef":"2Cor.13","verses":[{"verseId":47013001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"This _is_ the third _time_ I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.1"},{"verseId":47013002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:","osisRef":"2Cor.13.2"},{"verseId":47013003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Since ye seek a proof of [Christ](/person/jesus_905) speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.3"},{"verseId":47013004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of [God](/person/god_1324). For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of [God](/person/god_1324) toward you.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.4"},{"verseId":47013005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905) is in you, except ye be reprobates?","osisRef":"2Cor.13.5"},{"verseId":47013006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.6"},{"verseId":47013007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Now I pray to [God](/person/god_1324) that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.7"},{"verseId":47013008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.8"},{"verseId":47013009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, _even_ your perfection.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.9"},{"verseId":47013010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.10"},{"verseId":47013011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the [God](/person/god_1324) of love and peace shall be with you.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.11"},{"verseId":47013012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Greet one another with an holy kiss.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.12"},{"verseId":47013013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"All the saints salute you.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.13"},{"verseId":47013014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"The grace of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905), and the love of [God](/person/god_1324), and the communion of the [Holy](/person/holy_spirit_7400) Ghost, _be_ with you all. Amen.","osisRef":"2Cor.13.14"}]}]}]}},"pageContext":{"lookupName":"2cor"}}}