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Bible Reading for November 29
CHAPTER 10
2 Corinthians 10:1
1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who
in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2
Corinthians 10:2
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that
confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if
we walked according to the flesh. 2 Corinthians 10:3
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 2
Corinthians 10:4
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;)
2 Corinthians 10:5
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:6
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience
is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 10:7
7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to
himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he
is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. 2 Corinthians 10:8
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord
hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be
ashamed:
2 Corinthians 10:9
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 2 Corinthians 10:10
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 2 Corinthians 10:11
11 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. 2 Corinthians
10:12
12 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. 2 Corinthians 10:13
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the
measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even
unto you.
2 Corinthians 10:14
14 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:
2 Corinthians 10:15
15 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, 2 Corinthians 10:16
16 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. 2 Corinthians 10:17
17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 2 Corinthians 10:18
18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commendeth.
CHAPTER 11
2 Corinthians 11:1
1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear
with me.
2 Corinthians 11:2
2 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. 2
Corinthians 11:3
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:4
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, 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. 2 Corinthians 11:5
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2
Corinthians 11:6
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been
throughly made manifest among you in all things. 2 Corinthians 11:7
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,
because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 2 Corinthians 11:8
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 2
Corinthians 11:9
9 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 supplied:
and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so
will I keep myself.
2 Corinthians 11:10
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in
the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:11
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 2 Corinthians 11:12
12 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.
2 Corinthians 11:13
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves
into the apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2
Corinthians 11:15
15 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. 2
Corinthians 11:16
16 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. 2 Corinthians 11:17
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were
foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 2 Corinthians 11:18
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 2 Corinthians
11:19
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 2 Corinthians
11:20
20 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. 2
Corinthians 11:21
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit wherein
soever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 2 Corinthians 11:22
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed
of Abraham? so am I.
2 Corinthians 11:23
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours
more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths
oft.
2 Corinthians 11:24
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Corinthians
11:25
25 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; 2 Corinthians 11:26
26 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;
2 Corinthians 11:27
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in
fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 2 Corinthians 11:28
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the
care of all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:29
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 2
Corinthians 11:30
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine
infirmities.
2 Corinthians 11:31
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore,
knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians 11:32
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the
Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 2 Corinthians 11:33
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped
his hands.
CHAPTER 12
2 Corinthians 12:1
1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and
revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I
cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such
an one caught up to the third heaven. 2 Corinthians 12:3
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot
tell: God knoweth;)
2 Corinthians 12:4
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which
it is not lawful for a man to utter. 2 Corinthians 12:5
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine
infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:6
6 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. 2 Corinthians 12:7
7 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 to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 2 Corinthians 12:8
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 2
Corinthians 12:9
9 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 may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:10
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I
strong.
2 Corinthians 12:11
11 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.
2 Corinthians 12:12
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in
signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 2 Corinthians 12:13
13 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. 2 Corinthians
12:14
14 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. 2 Corinthians
12:15
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more
abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 2 Corinthians 12:16
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught
you with guile.
2 Corinthians 12:17
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 2 Corinthians
12:18
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of
you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 2
Corinthians 12:19
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in
Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 2 Corinthians
12:20
20 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: 2
Corinthians 12:21
21 And lest, when I come again, my God 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.
CHAPTER 13
2 Corinthians 13:1
1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall every word be established. 2 Corinthians 13:2
2 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: 2 Corinthians 13:3
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not
weak, but is mighty in you.
2 Corinthians 13:4
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of
God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of
God toward you.
2 Corinthians 13:5
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know
ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates?
2 Corinthians 13:6
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 2 Corinthians 13:7
7 Now I pray to God 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. 2
Corinthians 13:8
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2 Corinthians
13:9
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we
wish, even your perfection.
2 Corinthians 13:10
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should
use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to
edification, and not to destruction. 2 Corinthians 13:11
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one
mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 2
Corinthians 13:12
12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 2 Corinthians 13:13
13 All the saints salute you.
2 Corinthians 13:14
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion
of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. (The second epistle to the
Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and
Lucas.)
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