Tag: 2 Corinthians

Paul tells the Corinthian saints that he rejoices not because he made them feel sortie but because the spirit they felt from his earlier epistle brought them to repent. Any good parent will understand that feeling of joy of a pain that they have caused their child (whether intentionally or accidentally) brought that child to…

The liberty that comes eighths Spirit of the lord isn’t liberty of abandoning the laws of God, it is the liberty of being freed from our mental inhibitions against righteousness – things like the inclination to not but in even at times when buying in I’d exactly what someone needs us to do.

As a disciple of Christ, the measure of our work is the positive influence we have had on other people’s lives.

2 Corinthians 11 – 13 Paul’s list of trials sounds like the basis for the list of potential troubles the Lord spoke to Joseph Smith about in section 122 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

2 Corinthians 9 – 10 When we share our substance with those in need we should do it not because we must but because we like to share. The Loud approves those who follow His command rather than those who follow their own decisions.

2 Corinthians 7 – 8 At the writing of this second epistle Paul has learned that the saints at Corinth had repented of the things they were censured for in the first epistle he wrote to them. The equality of Zion in material things is that those who have much on the way of material…

2 Corinthians 5 – 6 “Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.” Pail described a very commendable steadiness of being unmoved from Christ and His ministry come what may. Being unequally yoked with unbelievers is speaking not of interaction but of entanglement. We should certainly interact with people…

2 Corinthians 3 – 4 “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.” “Though or outward man might perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”

2 Corinthians 1 – 2 Pail felt blessed by the prayers of the saints in his tribulation and now seeks that the saints may give thanks for his deliverance because he felt that God deserves more gratitude for the blessing them one man or a few can offer. We should practice being as much grateful…