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2 Corinthians 6:6

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We live pure lives. We’re understanding, patient, and kind. We serve God in the Holy Spirit and with true love

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God has chosen to make known to them the glorious riches of that mystery among the Gentiles. And here’s what it is: Christ is in you, the hope of glory.

Instead, be kind and merciful to one another. Forgive one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.

Be completely humble and gentle. Be patient and bear with one another in love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Let me ask again: Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you do what the law says? Or is it because you believe what you’ve heard?

So I’ll be very happy to spend everything I have for you. I will even spend myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

Why? Because I don’t love you? No! God knows that I do!

It’s true that I haven’t been trained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. I’ve made that perfectly clear to you in every way.

If someone comes to you and preaches about a Jesus who’s different from the Jesus we preached about, or a spirit different from the Spirit you received, or a version of the good news that’s different from the one you accepted, you put up with those kinds of things easily enough.

Make room for us in your hearts. We haven’t cheated anyone, we haven’t corrupted anyone, and we haven’t taken advantage of anyone.

God said, “Let light shine out of darkness.” And he made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light we needed to know God’s glory, which is shown in the face of Christ.

It’s clear that you’re a letter from Christ, the result of our work for God, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God. You’re a letter not written on tablets of stone but on human hearts.

I wrote to you in great distress, with a heavy heart, and with my eyes full of tears. I wasn’t trying to upset you. I just wanted you to know how deeply I love you.

Love is patient and kind. It doesn’t want what belongs to other people. It doesn’t brag, it isn’t proud,

“Who can ever know the Lord’s mind? Can anyone teach him anything?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil. Hold on to what is good.

Dear children, let’s not love just with words or talk. Let’s really love, by doing something.

You’ve made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now, you have an honest and true love for each other. So love one another deeply from your hearts.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you’re a young person. Instead, set an example for the believers in what you say and in how you live, how you love, and in what you believe. Show the believers how to be pure.

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

As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience as if they were new clothes.

The mystery is that because of the good news, Gentiles can also receive what God promised to the Jews. Both groups can be part of the same body, and in Christ Jesus, both share in the promise. So by reading this, you’ll be able to recognize the insight I have into the mystery of Christ. It wasn’t made known to people of other times the way the Spirit has now revealed it to God’s holy apostles and prophets.

I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by keeping the law, or by believing what you heard?

I didn’t preach my message with clever and compelling words. Instead, my preaching showed the Holy Spirit’s power.

through the power of signs and wonders, and through the power of the Spirit of God. I have now preached the good news about Christ to everyone from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

The prophets were shown that they weren’t serving themselves. Instead, they were serving you when they spoke about the things that you’ve now heard from those who preached the good news to you with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

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

Preach the word, be ready to serve God in good times and bad, correct people’s mistakes. Warn them, encourage them with words of hope, and be very patient as you do these things. Teach the people carefully,

But you know all about my teaching, my way of life, and my purpose, faith, love, and endurance.

older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters, with complete purity.

All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in him.

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

But, as you know, I didn’t come to Corinth on my way to Macedonia. I stayed away because I wanted to spare you. (God is my witness that this was the reason—may he take my life if I’m lying!)

But now, anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I’ve forgiven—whatever there is to forgive—I’ve forgiven for your sakes, knowing that Christ is watching.

That’s why I’m writing these things now, while I’m away. Then when I do come, I won’t have to use my authority and be hard on you. The Lord gave me that authority to build you up, not to tear you down.

But the wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peace-loving, kind, cooperative, full of mercy and good fruit, fair, and genuine.




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