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2 Corinthians 1:12

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With God’s help, we’ve acted toward everyone, and especially toward you, honorably and honestly. We can say that with pride and a clear conscience. We’ve depended on God’s grace and not on the world’s wisdom.

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That’s what we speak about, and we don’t use words that we’ve learned from human wisdom. We use words that the Holy Spirit has taught us, and we use them to explain spiritual truths.

Unlike many people, we aren’t selling God’s word to make money. It’s just the opposite! Because of Christ, we speak honestly before God, as people God has truly sent.

You’re witnesses, and so is God, that we led holy, godly, and blameless lives among you believers.

The water of the flood is a picture of the way that baptism now saves you too. It doesn’t save you by washing the dirt off your body. Instead, it’s your way of promising God that you’ll keep a clear conscience by the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead.

Pray for us. We’re sure that we’ve done what’s right, but we want to keep on living honorably in every way.

I’m not commanding you to do this. But I do want to challenge you to show how sincere your love is compared with the eagerness of others.

Instead, we refuse to do secret and shameful things. We don’t trick anyone, and we don’t twist God’s word. We do just the opposite! We present the truth plainly so that everyone can judge us in their own conscience before God.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace wasn’t wasted on me. No, I worked harder than all the other apostles—though it wasn’t me doing the work. God’s grace was with me.

So I always try not to do anything that God or people would consider wrong.

Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin. “My brothers,” he said, “I’ve always done my duty to God. To this day I feel that I have done nothing wrong.”

Keep your conscience clear, so that even if people say bad things about you as believers in Christ, they’ll be ashamed when the way you live proves them wrong.

I’m commanding you to do this for the sake of love, which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith.

Then you’ll be able to recognize the things that are best, and you’ll be pure and blameless on the day when Christ returns.

So stand firm, buckle the belt of truth around your waist, put the armor of godliness on your chest,

Everyone should test their own actions. Then they’ll be able to take pride in themselves without comparing themselves to others.

But just as Eve’s mind was tricked by the snake’s clever lies, I’m afraid that your minds will also be led astray somehow from your true and pure love for Christ.

Was I not serious when I planned all that? Do I make my plans in the way the world does, so that in the same breath I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

So let’s celebrate the Feast, but not with the old bread made with the yeast of hatred and wrongdoing. Let’s celebrate it with bread made without yeast, the bread of honesty and truth.

I don’t feel I have done anything wrong, but that doesn’t mean I’m not guilty. It’s the Lord who judges me.

I don’t want any of you to think that I’m not concerned about the people of Israel. They’re my family, my own flesh and blood. (I’m not lying, I’m telling you the truth as one in Christ—my conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.)

But God gives us more grace, which is why Scripture says, “God opposes those who are proud, but he gives grace to those who are humble.”

Set an example for them in everything by doing what is good. When you teach, be honest and serious,

Christ didn’t send me to baptize; he sent me to preach the good news. But I wasn’t supposed to try to persuade you with fancy words, because that would take all the power away from the cross of Christ.

To one person, the Spirit gives a message of wisdom. To another, the same Spirit gives a message of knowledge.




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