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2 Corinthians 6:6

James Moffatt - New Testament

with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,

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It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

When He supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, is it because you do what the Law commands or because you believe the gospel message?

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.

You put up with it all right, when some interloper preaches a second Jesus (not the Jesus I preached), or when you are treated to a Spirit different from the Spirit you once received, and to a different gospel from what I gave you! Why not put up with me?

Make a place for me in your hearts; I have wronged no one, ruined no one, taken advantage of no one.

For God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," has shone within my heart to illuminate men with the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Christ.

you make it obvious that you are a letter of Christ which I have been employed to inscribe, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of the human heart.

For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear — not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

For who ever understood the thoughts of the Lord, so as to give him instruction? No one. Well, our thoughts are Christ's thoughts.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper —

you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,

by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ —

to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters — with perfect propriety.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden!

One man is granted words of wisdom by the Spirit, another words of knowledge by the same Spirit;

I call God to witness against my soul, it was to spare you that I refrained from revisiting Corinth.

If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes,

I am writing thus to you in absence, so that when I do come I may not have to deal sharply with you; I have the Lord's authority for that, but he gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you.

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;




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