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2 Corinthians 2:12

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I went to Troas to tell people the Good News of Christ. The Lord gave me a good opportunity there.

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So they passed by Mysia and went to the city of Troas.

When Paul and Barnabas arrived, they gathered the church together. They told them everything God had used them to do. They said, “God opened a door for the non-Jewish people to believe!”

Also pray for us. Pray that God will give us an opportunity to tell people his message. I am in prison for doing this. But pray that we can continue to tell people the secret truth that God has made known about Christ.

I will stay here, because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against it.

Greetings from Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus. God chose me to be an apostle and gave me the work of telling his Good News.

We were all together in a room upstairs, and there were many lights in the room.

We left Troas in a ship and sailed to the island of Samothrace. The next day we sailed to the city of Neapolis.

Others have this right to get things from you. So surely we have this right too. But we don’t use this right. No, we endure everything ourselves so that we will not stop anyone from obeying the Good News of Christ.

It is the same with those who have the work of telling the Good News. The Lord has commanded that those who tell the Good News should get their living from this work.

It’s not my work of telling the Good News that gives me any reason to boast. That is my duty—something I must do. If I don’t tell people the Good News, I am in real trouble.

The Good News that we tell people may be hidden, but it is hidden only to those who are lost.

The ruler of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the message about the divine greatness of Christ. Christ is the one who is exactly like God.

We are sending with Titus the brother who is praised by all the churches. He is praised because of his service to the Good News.

This service is a proof of your faith, and people will praise God because of it. They will praise God that you freely share what you have with them and with all people. They will praise him to see you following the Good News about Christ that you openly accepted. They will praise God because you freely share with them and with all people.

We would be boasting too much only if we had not already come to you. But we have come to you with the Good News about Christ.

You seem to be quite patient with anyone who comes to you and tells you about a Jesus that is different from the Jesus we told you about. You seem very willing to accept a spirit or a message that is different from the Spirit and message that you received from us.

I did the work of telling God’s Good News to you without pay. I humbled myself to make you important. Do you think that was wrong?




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