(October, 5-2016 on Wednesday)
2 Corinthians 12:
20 For I am afraid that when I
come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you
want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. (2)
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18 I
urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit
you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit? (9)
19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending
ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of GOD as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for
your strengthening.
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9 But
He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
(9)
10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak,
then I am strong.
Paul’s Concern for
the Corinthians
11 I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have
been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
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15 So
I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.
If I love you more, will you love me less? (6)
16 Be that as it may,
I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by
trickery!
17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to
you?
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6 Even
if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking
the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by
what I do or say,
(6)
7 or because of these
surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming
conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment
me.
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
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21 I am afraid that when I come
again my GOD will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who
have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and
debauchery in which they have indulged. (3)
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12 I
persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including
signs, wonders and miracles.
(3)
13 How were you inferior
to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this
wrong!
14 Now I am ready to
visit you for the third time, and I will not be
a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After
all, children should not
have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
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Paul’s Vision and
His Thorn
1 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to
be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
2 I know a Man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—GOD
knows.
3 And
I know that this Man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know,
but GOD knows—
(3)
4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible
things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
5 I will boast about a Man like that, but I will not
boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
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(October, 6-2016 on Thursday)
1 Corinthians 10: 33 even as I try to please
everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many,
so that they may be saved. (6)
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25 Eat
anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, (7)
26 for, “The earth is
the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
27 If an unbeliever
invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you
without raising questions of conscience.
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16 Is
not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the
blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body
of Christ? (7)
17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one
body, for we all share the one loaf.
18 Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in
the altar?
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7 Do
not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat
down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” (7)
8 We should not
commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
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31 So
whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of GOD. (4)
32 Do not cause anyone
to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of GOD—
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22 Are we trying to arouse the
Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than He? (4)
The Believer’s
Freedom
23 “I have the right
to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do
anything”—but not everything
is constructive.
24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of
others.
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13 No
temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And
God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can
bear. But when you are tempted, he will
also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (4)
Idol Feasts and the
Lord’s Supper
14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak to sensible
people; judge for yourselves what I say.
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4 and drank the same spiritual
drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that
rock was Christ. (4)
5 Nevertheless, GOD was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were
scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from
setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
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28 But
if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat
it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. (1)
29 I am referring to
the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by
another’s conscience?
30 If I take part in
the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because
of something I thank GOD for?
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19 Do
I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is
anything? (1)
20 No, but the
sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to GOD, and I do not want you
to be participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of
demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of
demons.
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10 And do not grumble,
as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
11 These things happened to them as examples and were written
down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful
that you don’t fall!
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Warnings From
Israel’s History
1 For I do not want
you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were
all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. (1)
2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and
in the sea.
3 They all ate the same spiritual food
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