2 Corinthians Verse by verse (2)

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2 Corinthians 2:12
Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me

 

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2 Corinthians 2:13
I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

 

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2 Corinthians 2:14
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.

 

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2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing

 

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2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?

 

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2 Corinthians 2:17
Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God

 

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2 Corinthians 3:1
Do we have to show you our qualifications again? Do we, like some people, need letters that recommend us to you or letters from you that recommend us to others

 

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2 Corinthians 3:2
You’re our letter of recommendation written in our hearts that everyone knows and reads

 

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2 Corinthians 3:3
It’s clear that you are Christ’s letter, written as a result of our ministry. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, a letter written not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

 

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2 Corinthians 3:4
Christ gives us confidence about you in God’s presence.

 

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2 Corinthians 3:5
By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified

 

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2 Corinthians 3:6
He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise,[a] a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

 

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2 Corinthians 3:7
The ministry that brought death was inscribed on stone. Yet, it came with such glory that the people of Israel couldn’t look at Moses’ face. His face was shining with glory, even though that glory was fading.

 

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2 Corinthians 3:8
Won’t the ministry that brings the Spirit have even more glory?

 

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2 Corinthians 3:9
If the ministry that brings punishment has glory, then the ministry that brings God’s approval has an overwhelming glory

 

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2 corinthians 3:10
In fact, the ministry that brings punishment lost its glory because of the superior glory of the other ministry

 

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2 Corinthians 3:11
If that former ministry faded away despite its glory, how much more does that ministry which remains continue to be glorious?

 

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2 Corinthians 3:12
Since we have confidence in the new promise, we speak very boldly

 

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2 Corinthains 3:13
We are not like Moses. He kept covering his face with a veil. He didn’t want the people of Israel to see the glory fading away.

 

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2 Corinthians 3:14
However, their minds became closed. In fact, to this day the same veil is still there when they read the Old Testament. It isn’t removed, because only Christ can remove it.