2 Corinthians 1:4
1:4 who comforts us in all our troubles
so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble
with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:6
1:6 But if we are afflicted,
it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:9
1:9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us,
so that we would not trust in ourselves
but in God who raises the dead.
2 Corinthians 1:19
1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us – by me and Silvanus
and Timothy – was not “Yes” and “No,” but it has always been “Yes” in him.
2 Corinthians 2:3
2:3 And I wrote this very thing to you,
so that when I came
I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.
2 Corinthians 3:7
The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry
3:7 But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets – came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),
2 Corinthians 7:7
7:7 We were encouraged
not only by his arrival, but also by the encouragement
you gave
him, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning,
your deep concern
for me, so that I rejoiced more than ever.
2 Corinthians 7:11
7:11 For see what this very thing, this sadness
as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves,
what indignation,
what alarm, what longing, what deep concern,
what punishment!
In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
2 Corinthians 7:14
7:14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you,
but just as everything we said to you was true,
so our boasting to Titus about you
has proved true as well.
2 Corinthians 9:13
9:13 Through the evidence
of this service
they will glorify God because of your obedience to your confession in the gospel of Christ and the generosity of your sharing
with them and with everyone.
2 Corinthians 10:1
Paul’s Authority from the Lord
10:1 Now I, Paul, appeal to you personally by the meekness and gentleness of Christ (I who am meek when present among you, but am full of courage toward you when away!) –
2 Corinthians 10:12
Paul’s Mission
10:12 For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 11:3
11:3 But I am afraid that
just as the serpent
deceived Eve by his treachery,
your minds may be led astray
from a sincere and pure
devotion to Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:13
12:13 For how
were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!