{"product_id":"2940148952831","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians","description":"THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this Epistle St. Paul comforts those who are now reformed by his\u003cbr\u003eadmonitions to them in the former and absolves the incestuous man on\u003cbr\u003edoing penance, whom he had before excommunicated for his crime. Hence he\u003cbr\u003etreats of true penance and of the dignity of the ministers of the New\u003cbr\u003eTestament. He cautions the faithful against false teachers and the\u003cbr\u003esociety of infidels. He gives an account of his sufferings and also of\u003cbr\u003ethe favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second\u003cbr\u003eEpistle was written in the same year with the first and sent by Titus\u003cbr\u003efrom some place in Macedonia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Corinthians Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe speaks of his troubles in Asia. His not coming to them was not out of\u003cbr\u003elevity. The constancy and sincerity of his doctrine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy\u003cbr\u003eour brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the\u003cbr\u003esaints that are in all Achaia:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2. Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord\u003cbr\u003eJesus Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father\u003cbr\u003eof mercies and the God of all comfort:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able\u003cbr\u003eto comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we\u003cbr\u003ealso are exhorted by God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ\u003cbr\u003edoth our comfort abound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:6. Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and\u003cbr\u003esalvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or\u003cbr\u003ewhether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which\u003cbr\u003eworketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:7. That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are\u003cbr\u003epartakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:8. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation\u003cbr\u003ewhich came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our\u003cbr\u003estrength, so that we were weary even of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:9. But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not\u003cbr\u003etrust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:10. Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in\u003cbr\u003ewhom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:11. You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained\u003cbr\u003efor us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our\u003cbr\u003ebehalf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12. For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in\u003cbr\u003esimplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but\u003cbr\u003ein the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more\u003cbr\u003eabundantly towards you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:13. For we write no other things to you than what you have read and\u003cbr\u003eknown. And I hope that you shall know unto the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:14. As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you\u003cbr\u003ealso are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:15. And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that\u003cbr\u003eyou might have a second grace:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:16. And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to\u003cbr\u003ecome to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:17. Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the\u003cbr\u003ethings that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there\u003cbr\u003eshould be with me, It is, and It is not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:18. But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not,\u003cbr\u003eIt is, and It is not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by\u003cbr\u003eus, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But,\u003cbr\u003eIt is, was in him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is, was in him... There was no inconstancy in the doctrine of the\u003cbr\u003eapostles, sometimes, like modern sectaries, saying, It is, and at other\u003cbr\u003etimes saying, It is not. But their doctrine was ever the same, one\u003cbr\u003euniform yea, in Jesus Christ, one Amen, that is, one truth in him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:20. For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by\u003cbr\u003ehim, amen to God, unto our glory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:21. Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath\u003cbr\u003eanointed us, is God:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:22. Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our\u003cbr\u003ehearts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:23. But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came\u003cbr\u003enot any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your\u003cbr\u003efaith: but we are helpers of your joy. 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