Study Desk

Anyone you forgive, I do too. For what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—it is for your benefit in the presence of Christ,

so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord opened a door for me,

I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. Instead, I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia.

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things?

For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.

For if what was set aside was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.

but their minds were hardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.

For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh.

For we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you.

Indeed, everything is for your benefit so that, as grace extends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.

So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.