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Texts -- 2 Corinthians 1:7 (NET)
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- 2Co 1:3-11 -- Thanksgiving for God's Comfort
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Suffering
[isbe] SUFFERING - suf'-er-ing: A great variety of Hebrew and Greek expressions, too large to be here enumerated, have been translated by "suffering" and other forms derived from the same verb. The most obvious meanings of the word...
[nave] SUFFERING Alleviation of Job 22:29; Isa. 58:6, 7, 10; Matt. 25:34-45; Luke 10:30-37; Phil. 2:1, 2; 1 Tim. 5:10; Jas. 5:13-15 For Christ Acts 9:16; Rom. 8:17-23, 26; 1 Cor. 4:12, 13; 2 Cor. 1:7; 2 Cor. 4:11-18; Phil. 1:29;...
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Afflictions and Adversities
[nave] AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Benefits of; Benefits of, Illustrated; Consolation in; Deliverance from; Design of; Despondency in; Dispe...
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Corinthians, Second Epistle to the
[ebd] Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Pursuing the usual route, he...
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Questions
- The "perfect will" of God is what you find in Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God-what is good and ...
- One is the passage in Isaiah 53:5: "By His scourging we are healed." Ultimately, of course, all the saints are healed, when we are given our heavenly bodies. Let me very quickly say that God can, and sometimes does, heal. I...
- I have not had a close friend commit suicide, so I can't speak to you from personal experience. My wife and I lost our first child when he was 3 ½ months old, and I do know what that was like. God gave us great peace in the ...
- The suffering I have experienced does not compare to what you have described. The problem of pain is one that requires much more than a glib response. Indeed, the answer is probably the content of a book -- one...
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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)
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I. Introduction 1:1-11A. Salutation 1:1-2B. Thanksgiving for comfort in affliction 1:3-111. Thanksgiving for comfort 1:3-72. Thanksgiving for deliverance 1:8-11II. Answers to insinuations about the sincerity of Paul's commitm...
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In this pericope Paul gave thanks to God for the comfort (vv. 3-7) and deliverance (vv. 8-11) that he had experienced recently. He wanted to enable his readers to appreciate what he as an apostle had endured for Christ and th...
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1:3 The Greek word translated "blessed"(eulogetos) occurs eight times in the New Testament mostly in Paul's writings. It always occurs with the person of God.27It expresses both gratitude and adoration (cf. Eph. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1...
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"The passage that follows (2:14-7:4) is the longest coherent section within 2 Corinthians and is, arguably, the centerpiece of the entire letter. Nonetheless, it is not freestanding, but continuous with what precedes it."109P...
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Paul presented many paradoxical contrasts involved in the sufferings and supports of the Christian to clarify for his readers the real issues involved in serving Jesus Christ."This passage, which is about suffering and death ...
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13:11 Obedience to five commands would result in one condition that Paul wanted his readers to express in a particular practice.1. They were to rejoice, probably because they had the opportunity to judge themselves before God...
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1:9 John now addressed the seven churches to which he sent this epistolary prophecy directly. He described himself to his readers as their brother in Christ and a partaker with them in three things. These were, first, the rel...
