(From the Good News Study Bible).
Second Corinthians
Chapter 5, verse 19:
For God was in Christ, restoring the world to himself, no longer counting men’s sins against them but blotting them out. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others.
Chapter 5, verse 20
We are Christ’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you: we beg you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, receive the love he offers you - be reconciled to God.
Chapter 5, verse 21
For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God’s goodness into us!
Chapter 6, verse 1:
As God’s partners, we beg you not to toss aside this marvelous message of God’s great kindness.
Chapter 6, verse 2:
For God says, “Your cry came to me at a favorable time, when the doors of welcome were wide open. I helped you on a day when salvation was being offered.” Right now God is ready to welcome you. Today he is ready to save you.
Chapter 6, verse 3:
We try to live in such a way that no one will ever be offended or kept back from finding the Lord by the way we act, so that no one can find fault with us and blame it on the Lord.
Chapter 6, verse 4:
In fact, in everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure suffering and hardship and trouble of every kind.
Chapter 6, verse 5:
We have been beaten, put in jail, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, stayed awake through sleepless nights of watching, and gone without food.
Chapter 6, verse 6:
We have proved ourselves to be what we claim by our wholesome lives and by our understanding of the Gospel and by our patience. We have been kind and truly loving and filled with the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 6, verse 7:
We have been truthful, with God’s power helping us in all we do. All of the godly man’s arsenal - weapons of defense, and weapons of attack - have been ours.
Chapter 6, verse 8:
We stand true to the Lord whether others honor us or despise us, whether they criticize us or commend us. We are honest, but they call us liars.
Chapter 6, verse 9:
The world ignores us, but we are known to God; we live close to death, but here we are, still very much alive. We have been injured but kept from death.
Chapter 6, verse 10:
Our hearts ache, but at the same time we have the joy of the Lord. We are poor, but we give rich spiritual gifts to others. We own nothing, and yet we enjoy everything.
Chapter 6, verse 11:
Oh, my dear Corinthian friends! I have told you all my feelings; I love you with all my heart.
Chapter 6, verse 12:
Any coldness still between us is not because of any lack of love on my part but because your love is too small and does not reach out to me and draw me in.
Chapter 6, verse 13:
I am talking to you now as if you truly were my very own children. Open your hearts to us! Return our love!
Chapter 6, verse 14:
Don’t be teamed with those who do not love the Lord, for what do the people of God have in common with the people of sin? How can light live with darkness?
Chapter 6, verse 15:
And what harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a Christian be a partner with one who doesn’t believe?
Chapter 6, verse 16:
And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For you are God’s temple, the home of the living God, and God has said of you, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.”
Chapter 6, verse 17:
That is why the Lord has said, “Leave them; separate yourselves from them; don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you
Chapter 6, verse 18:
And be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters.”
Chapter 7, verse 1:
Having such great promises as these, dear friends, let us turn away from everything wrong, whether of body or spirit, and purify ourselves, living in the wholesome fear of God, giving ourselves to him alone.
Chapter 7, verse 2:
Please open your hearts to us again, for not one of you has suffered any wrong from us. Not one of you was led astray. We have cheated no one nor taken advantage of anyone.
Chapter 7, verse 3:
I’m not saying this to scold or blame you, for, as I have said before, you are in my heart forever, and I live and die with you.
Chapter 7, verse 4:
I have the highest confidence in you, and my pride in you is great. You have greatly encouraged me; you have made me so happy in spite of all my suffering. - Apostle Paul
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