Devotions from 2 Corinthians

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 2-3 Meditation Verse: 2:4 It is never easy to confront someone about their sin. It is so distressing that I would rather leave them be, hope someone else would speak up or that God would take care of it Himself. But…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 4-5 Meditation Verses: 5:10-11 Lord, help me fear You more, and help me fear for unbelievers more, that I would be far more diligent to warn them and call them to repentance, that they might be saved. My love has grown…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 6-7 Meditation Verse: 7:1 Perfecting holiness requires understanding what holiness is, understanding what God desires, who God is, and doing it. It also requires ridding ourselves of everything that contaminates body and spirit. Anything unclean, anything that encourages sinful desires within…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 8-9 Meditation Verses: 8:2-4 Giving is far better than keeping for myself. Earthly treasure has little value unless it can be converted to heavenly currency, and that happens by giving to believers in need or giving to advance the kingdom of…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 10-11 Meditation Verses: 11:23-29 There is such arrogance among men and women today, to think they know better than Paul how we ought to live, to so boldly debate and argue with Paul's writings and so freely set aside anything they…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 12-13 Meditation Verses: 13:1-4 The only thing that hinders discipline is a community unwilling to cooperate with the discipline. Paul previously said that he was ready to punish the wrongdoers, as soon as the Corinthians' obedience was complete. Not that they…

Passage Read: 1 Corinthians 16 - 2 Corinthians 1 Meditation Verse: 2 Corinthians 1:7 Those whom God has chosen, He will also preserve in Christ. Those whom God has chosen, when they suffer for Christ, they will also receive from God His comfort, so that…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 2-3 Meditation Verses: 2:6-8 This is likely in reference to the man in 1 Corinthians 5, but whether him or some other brother, the point remains. Church discipline is not for the purpose of eternal rejection, but to impress on the…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 4-5 Meditation Verse: 4:2 Anything that brings shame, instead of hiding it, covering it, continuing in it but claiming freedom, deceiving people about it, Paul renounced it. If he could not practice it publicly because it was shameful, he did away…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 6-7 Meditation Verse: 6:3 This is a tough statement to process. Paul determines to give no cause for offense in anything. How does he mean that? Certainly not in his teachings, because the Gospel has offended many Jews, and his other…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 8-9 Meditation Verses: 9:13-14 Receiving gifts from others should result in praise to God for the true faith of the giver and their generosity. It should also result in prayer and longing for the giver because of the amazing grace of…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 10-11 Meditation Verses: 10:3-6 Sometimes the answer to a question is so obvious that I can't see it. Here Paul talks about weapons that destroy strongholds and take captive every thought. He talks about spiritual weapons, not fleshly. Divinely powerful weapons!…

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 12-13 Meditation Verses: 12:20-21 Paul fears that there may yet be all these unrighteous behaviors in the Corinthian church. Which means he expects them to have conquered all these sinful behaviors! Things like jealousy, arrogance, slander, anger, strife—all kinds of disunity,…