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2 Corinthians · read by Dennis Kinlaw
52 verses, in order. Only the verses Dennis 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 · Our Calling - Intimate Fellowship
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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 ESV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
2 Corinthians 4
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.Read from ESV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
2 Corinthians 6
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
2 Corinthians 11
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I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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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 · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross
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But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.Read from NKJV · This Calling and Its Cost - a Cross