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2 Corinthians · read by Bob Hoekstra
61 verses, in order. Only the verses Bob read aloud are shown.
2 Corinthians 1
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · Jesus Christ Our Lord
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We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #6 - Resurrected Living by God's Sufficiency
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He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #10 - the Resurrection Covenant Part 2
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And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #14 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 2
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For all the promises of God are "Yes" in Christ. And so through Him, our "Amen" is spoken to the glory of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #22 - a Covenant of Better Promises Part 2
2 Corinthians 2
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Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord,Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #13 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 1
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I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
2 Corinthians 3
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Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #14 - Characters of New Covenant Life & Service Part 2
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You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.Read from NKJV · The Highest Priority
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It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #19 - New Covenant Obedience Part 1
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Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #15 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 1
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And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #3 - Man's Sufficiency vs. God's Sufficiency
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Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #3 - Man's Sufficiency vs. God's Sufficiency
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will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #15 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 1
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For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #3 - Man's Sufficiency vs. God's Sufficiency
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Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #3 - Man's Sufficiency vs. God's Sufficiency
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For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #15 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 1
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Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #16 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 2
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We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #16 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 2
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And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #16 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 2
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But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #16 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 2
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.Read from NASB1995 · Growing in the Grace of God #16 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 2
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And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #16 - Contrasts Between the Old & New Covenant Part 2
2 Corinthians 4
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Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #17 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 1
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Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #17 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 1
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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #17 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 1
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The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #17 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 1
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For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #17 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 1
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For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #17 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 1
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Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #4 - Insufficient Vessels Containing Sufficient Treasure
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We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
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persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.Read from ESV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
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We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #4 - Insufficient Vessels Containing Sufficient Treasure
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For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
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So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
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All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #23 - Various Aspects of New Covenant Grace Part 1
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
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For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #4 - Insufficient Vessels Containing Sufficient Treasure
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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
2 Corinthians 5
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For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.Read from NKJV · Singles Serving the Lord Without Distraction - Part 2
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And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.Read from NKJV · Singles Serving the Lord Without Distraction - Part 2
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 3
2 Corinthians 6
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As God's fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #6 - the 'Much More' Grace of God
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For He says: "In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!Read from NKJV · Growing in Grace #6 - the 'Much More' Grace of God
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We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #2 - Characteristics of Living by God's Sufficiency
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Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?Read from NKJV · The Church: How Jesus Builds It #5 - Ministry to the World
2 Corinthians 7
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Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.Read from NKJV · Sufficiency for Godly Living #1 - Living by God's Sufficiency
2 Corinthians 8
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Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #06 - the New Covenant of Grace
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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #06 - the New Covenant of Grace
2 Corinthians 9
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And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.Read from NKJV · Living Daily by Grace
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And their prayers for you will express their affection for you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #24 - Various Aspects of New Covenant Grace Part 2
2 Corinthians 11
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I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.Read from NKJV · Counseling God's Way Leadership Seminar - Part 3
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in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2
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Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.Read from NKJV · Growing in the Grace of God #18 - More Characteristics of New Covenant Living Part 2