September 15, 2024
Evening Service

2Co 1:21  Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

2Co 1:22  who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

2Co 1:23  Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

2Co 1:24  Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

 

 

2Co 2:1  But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

2Co 2:2  For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

 

2Co 2:3  And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

2Co 2:4  For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

 

Forgive the Sinner

2Co 2:5  But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe.

2Co 2:6  This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,

2Co 2:7  so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

 

2Co 2:8  Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

2Co 2:9  For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

2Co 2:10  Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

2Co 2:11  lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

 

Triumph in Christ

2Co 2:12  Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

2Co 2:13  I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.

 

2Co 2:14  Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

2Co 2:15  For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

2Co 2:16  To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

 

2Co 2:17  For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.