2 Corinthians 1 Read & Thoughts

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GODS WORD: BOLD

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2 Corinthians 1

1:3-4 …the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 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.

5-8 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation;

(Paul is working for their salvation, His burden is that which will become the comfort and salvation of those he is talking to)

If we are comforted, it is for your comfort,

(Paul’s comfort is the result of their current spiritual condition & “salvation status”)

which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

(If salvation and “comfort” is obtained by the recipients of Paul’s letter, their agenda changes, then they see and become burdened by the same burden as Paul)

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

(Once you get our burden, you to will understand our Satisfaction… For others?)

12-14 Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to Gods grace.

(While in the world, They have conducted themselves appropriately and have approached their relationship with holiness and sincerity that is from God. They have a clear conscience because of the trust in God and the power of God that has been granted to them because of their faith.)

For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.

(Seems Paul is trying to say he is blessed by them as he hopes they feel blessed as well?)

18-24 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “no” (Law) For the Son of God, Jesus Chris, who was preached among you by me and Silas and Timothy, was not Yes” and “No”, but in him it has always been “Yes” For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.

(Christ is the Yes to ALL of the promises of God, Christ is the fulfillment of Promises made by God)

Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

(Gods Spirit in our hearts, and his anointed power is the reason we stand firm in Christ, even our faith is the result of Gods power, all glory to God Amen!)

I call God as my witness that I was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.