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2 Corinthians · read by Bruce Rodgers
54 verses, in order. Only the verses Bruce read aloud are shown.
2 Corinthians 1
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,Read from KJV · Teaching: Connecting with people
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who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.Read from KJV · Temptation and the sympathizing Christ
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For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.Read from NKJV · Temptation and the sympathizing Christ
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If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.Read from KJV · Temptation and the sympathizing Christ
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Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.Read from NKJV · Teaching: Connecting with people
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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 · The Sympathy of God
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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 KJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,Read from KJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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as you have already understood us in part, so that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.Read from KJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,Read from NKJV · The Conscience, Part 2
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placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.Read from KJV · The Conscience, Part 2
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I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.Read from KJV · The Conscience, Part 2
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Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.Read from KJV · The Conscience, Part 2
2 Corinthians 2
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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 KJV · Stewardship and the Judgement Seat of Christ
2 Corinthians 3
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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 KJV · Local Church: New Testament Pictures of a Local Assembly (Church)
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will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?Read from KJV · Glory of God Part 2: Christ Glorified God
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.Read from KJV · Glory of God Part 2: Christ Glorified God
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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 KJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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 KJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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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 KJV · Stewardship and the Judgement Seat of Christ
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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.Read from KJV · Glory of God Part 2: Christ Glorified God
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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 KJV · Glory of God Part 2: Christ Glorified God
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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 KJV · The Sympathy of God
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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 KJV · The Sympathy of God
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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 KJV · The Sympathy of God
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knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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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 KJV · The Sympathy of God
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For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison.Read from KJV · Stewardship and the Judgement Seat of Christ Part II
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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 NASB1995 · The Sympathy of God
2 Corinthians 5
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Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.Read from KJV · The Sympathy of God
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.Read from NKJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.Read from KJV · Stewardship and the Judgement Seat of Christ
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If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.Read from KJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.Read from KJV · Faithfulness and Commitment
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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 KJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.Read from KJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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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 KJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:Read from NKJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.Read from NKJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.Read from KJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
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God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.Read from KJV · 2 Corinthians 5:13-21
2 Corinthians 11
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I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.Read from KJV · Local Church: New Testament Pictures of a Local Assembly (Church)
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I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.Read from KJV · Local Church: New Testament Pictures of a Local Assembly (Church)
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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 KJV · Local Church: New Testament Pictures of a Local Assembly (Church)
2 Corinthians 12
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And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?Read from KJV · Stewardship with finances (part 1)
2 Corinthians 13
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For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.Read from NKJV · The Judgment Seat of Christ