Personal Devotions ⁽⁵⁷⁹⁾

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 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 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 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: 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…