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Corinthians, 2nd","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\n\nIn this Epistle St. Paul comforts those who are now reformed by his\nadmonitions to them in the former and absolves the incestuous man on\ndoing penance, whom he had before excommunicated for his crime. Hence he\ntreats of true penance and of the dignity of the ministers of the New\nTestament. He cautions the faithful against false teachers and the\nsociety of infidels. He gives an account of his sufferings and also of\nthe favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second\nEpistle was written in the same year with the first and sent by Titus\nfrom some place in Macedonia.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 1\n\nHe speaks of his troubles in Asia. His not coming to them was not out of\nlevity. The constancy and sincerity of his doctrine.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy\nour brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the\nsaints that are in all Achaia:\n\n1:2. Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father\nof mercies and the God of all comfort:\n\n1:4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able\nto comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we\nalso are exhorted by God.\n\n1:5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ\ndoth our comfort abound.\n\n1:6. Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and\nsalvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or\nwhether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which\nworketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.\n\n1:7. That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are\npartakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.\n\n1:8. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation\nwhich came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our\nstrength, so that we were weary even of life.\n\n1:9. But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not\ntrust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.\n\n1:10. Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in\nwhom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,\n\n1:11. You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained\nfor us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our\nbehalf.\n\n1:12. For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in\nsimplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but\nin the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more\nabundantly towards you.\n\n1:13. For we write no other things to you than what you have read and\nknown. And I hope that you shall know unto the end.\n\n1:14. As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you\nalso are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:15. And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that\nyou might have a second grace:\n\n1:16. And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to\ncome to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.\n\n1:17. Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the\nthings that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there\nshould be with me, It is, and It is not?\n\n1:18. But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not,\nIt is, and It is not.\n\n1:19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by\nus, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But,\nIt is, was in him.\n\nIt is, was in him... There was no inconstancy in the doctrine of the\napostles, sometimes, like modern sectaries, saying, It is, and at other\ntimes saying, It is not. But their doctrine was ever the same, one\nuniform yea, in Jesus Christ, one Amen, that is, one truth in him.\n\n1:20. For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by\nhim, amen to God, unto our glory.\n\n1:21. Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath\nanointed us, is God:\n\n1:22. Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our\nhearts.\n\n1:23. But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came\nnot any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your\nfaith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 2\n\nHe grants a pardon to the incestuous man upon his doing penance.\n\n2:1. But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.\n\n2:2. For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad,\nbut the same who is made sorrowful by me?\n\n2:3. And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have\nsorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having\nconfidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.\n\n2:4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you\nwith many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you\nmight know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.\n\n2:5. And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in\npart, that I may not burden you all.\n\n2:6. To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given\nby many.\n\n2:7. So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort\nhim, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.\n\n2:8. Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity\ntowards him.\n\n2:9. For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of\nyou, whether you be obedient in all things.\n\n2:10. And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have\npardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in\nthe person of Christ:\n\nI also... The apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the\nperson and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian,\nwhom before he had put under penance, which pardon consisted in a\nreleasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin.\n\n2:11. That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of\nhis devices.\n\n2:12. And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door\nwas opened unto me in the Lord,\n\n2:13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother:\nbut bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.\n\n2:14. Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ\nJesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.\n\n2:15. For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are\nsaved and in them that perish.\n\n2:16. To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others\nthe odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?\n\nThe odour of death, etc... The preaching of the apostle, which by its\nfragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own\nfault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting\nthat divine call.\n\n2:17. For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with\nsincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 3\n\nHe needs no commendatory letters. The glory of the ministry of the New\nTestament.\n\n3:1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do)\nepistles of commendation to you, or from you?\n\n3:2. You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read\nby all men:\n\n3:3. Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by\nus, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not\nin tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.\n\n3:4. And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.\n\n3:5. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of\nourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.\n\n3:6. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in\nthe letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit\nquickeneth.\n\nThe letter... Not rightly understood, and taken without the spirit.\n\n3:7. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon\nstones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not\nsteadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance),\nwhich is made void:\n\n3:8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?\n\n3:9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the\nministration of justice aboundeth in glory.\n\n3:10. For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified by\nreason of the glory that excelleth.\n\n3:11. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which\nremaineth is in glory.\n\n3:12. Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence.\n\n3:13. And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of\nIsrael might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made\nvoid.\n\n3:14. But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the\nselfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken\naway (because in Christ it is made void).\n\n3:15. But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon\ntheir heart.\n\n3:16. But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be\ntaken away.\n\n3:17. Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is,\nthere is liberty.\n\n3:18. But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are\ntransformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of\nthe Lord.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 4\n\nThe sincerity of his preaching. His comfort in his afflictions.\n\n4:1. Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have\nobtained mercy, we faint not.\n\n4:2. But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in\ncraftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the\ntruth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of\nGod.\n\n4:3. And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost,\n\n4:4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of\nunbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is\nthe image of God, should not shine unto them.\n\n4:5. For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and\nourselves your servants through Jesus.\n\n4:6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath\nshined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of\nGod, in the face of Christ Jesus.\n\n4:7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency\nmay be of the power of God and not of us.\n\n4:8. In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed.  We\nare straitened: but are not destitute.\n\n4:9. We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: but\nwe perish not.\n\n4:10. Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that\nthe life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.\n\n4:11. For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake:\nthat the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.\n\n4:12. So then death worketh in us: but life in you.\n\n4:13. But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed,\nfor which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which cause we speak\nalso:\n\n4:14. Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with\nJesus and place us with you.\n\n4:15. For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding\nthrough many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.\n\n4:16. For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is\ncorrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.\n\n4:17. For that which is at present momentary and light of our\ntribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight\nof glory.\n\n4:18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things\nwhich are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the\nthings which are not seen, are eternal.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 5\n\nHe is willing to leave his earthly mansion to be with the Lord.  His\ncharity to the Corinthians.\n\n5:1. For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved,\nthat we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in\nheaven.\n\n5:2. For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our\nhabitation that is from heaven.\n\n5:3. Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.\n\n5:4. For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened;\nbecause we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is\nmortal may be swallowed up by life.\n\n5:5. Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us\nthe pledge of the Spirit,\n\n5:6. Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in\nthe body we are absent from the Lord.\n\n5:7. (For we walk by faith and not by sight.)\n\n5:8. But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from\nthe body and to be present with the Lord.\n\n5:9. And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.\n\n5:10. For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ,\nthat every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as\nhe hath done, whether it be good or evil.\n\nThe proper things of the body... In the particular judgment, immediately\nafter death, the soul is rewarded or punished according to what it has\ndone in the body.\n\n5:11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men:\nbut to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we\nare manifest.\n\n5:12. We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to\nglory in our behalf: that you may have somewhat to answer them who glory\nin face, and not in heart.\n\n5:13. For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we\nbe sober, it is for you.\n\n5:14. For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one\ndied for all, then all were dead.\n\n5:15. And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live\nto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.\n\n5:16. Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh.  And\nif we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so\nno longer.\n\nWe know no man according to the flesh... That is, we consider not any\nman with regard to his nation, family, kindred, or other natural\nqualities or advantages; but only with relation to Christ, and according\nto the order of divine charity, in God, and for God. The apostle adds,\nthat even with respect to Christ himself, he now no longer considers him\naccording to the flesh, by taking a satisfaction in his being his\ncountryman; his affection being now purified from all such earthly\nconsiderations.\n\n5:17. If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed\naway. Behold all things are made new.\n\n5:18. But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by\nChrist and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.\n\n5:19. For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself,\nnot imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of\nreconciliation.\n\n5:20. For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting\nby us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.\n\n5:21. Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be\nmade the justice of God in him.\n\nSin for us... That is, to be a sin offering, a victim for sin.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 6\n\nHe exhorts them to a correspondence with God's grace and not to\nassociate with unbelievers.\n\n6:1. And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God\nin vain.\n\n6:2. For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day\nof salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time:\nbehold, now is the day of salvation.\n\n6:3. Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.\n\n6:4. But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God,\nin much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,\n\n6:5. In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in\nfastings,\n\n6:6. In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the\nHoly Ghost, in charity unfeigned,\n\n6:7. In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice\non the right hand and on the left:\n\n6:8. By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as\ndeceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known:\n\n6:9. As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:\n\n6:10. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many:\nas having nothing and possessing all things.\n\n6:11. Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged.\n\n6:12. You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are\nstraitened.\n\n6:13. But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be you\nalso enlarged.\n\n6:14. Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath\njustice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?\n\n6:15. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the\nfaithful with the unbeliever?\n\n6:16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are\nthe temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and\nwalk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.\n\n6:17. Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the\nLord, and touch not the unclean thing:\n\n6:18. And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall\nbe my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 7\n\nThe apostle's affection for the Corinthians. His comfort and joy on\ntheir account.\n\n7:1. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse\nourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting\nsanctification in the fear of God.\n\n7:2. Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we\nhave overreached no man.\n\n7:3. I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before that\nyou are in our hearts: to die together and to live together.\n\n7:4. Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you.  I am\nfilled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our\ntribulation.\n\n7:5. For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest:\nbut we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within.\n\n7:6. But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of\nTitus.\n\n7:7. And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith\nhe was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your\nzeal for me: so that I rejoiced the more.\n\n7:8. For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent.\nAnd if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a\ntime) did make you sorrowful,\n\n7:9. Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you\nwere made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according\nto God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing.\n\n7:10. For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast\nunto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.\n\n7:11. For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful\naccording to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence,\nyea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all\nthings you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter.\n\n7:12. Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that\ndid the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our\ncarefulness that we have for you.\n\n7:13. Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation we\ndid the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his spirit\nwas refreshed by you all.\n\n7:14. And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put\nto shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our\nboasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.\n\n7:15. And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the\nobedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.\n\n7:16. I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 8\n\nHe exhorts them to contribute bountifully to relieve the poor of\nJerusalem.\n\n8:1. Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath\nbeen given in the churches of Macedonia.\n\n8:2. That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of\njoy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their\nsimplicity.\n\nSimplicity... That is, sincere bounty and charity.\n\n8:3. For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their\npower, they were willing:\n\n8:4. With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of the\nministry that is done toward the saints.\n\n8:5. And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the\nLord, then to us by the will of God;\n\n8:6. Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he\nwould finish among you this same grace.\n\n8:7. That as in all things you abound in faith and word and knowledge\nand all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us: so in\nthis grace also you may abound.\n\n8:8. I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others,\napproving also the good disposition of your charity.\n\n8:9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he\nbecame poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.\n\n8:10. And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who\nhave begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago.\n\n8:11. Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is\nforward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which\nyou have.\n\n8:12. For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which\na man hath: not according to that which he hath not.\n\n8:13. For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but\nby an equality.\n\n8:14. In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that\ntheir abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an\nequality,\n\n8:15. As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that\nhad little had no want.\n\n8:16. And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you\nin the heart of Titus.\n\n8:17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation: but, being more careful,\nof his own will he went unto you.\n\n8:18. We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the\ngospel through all the churches.\n\n8:19. And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches\ncompanion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us,\nto the glory of the Lord and our determined will:\n\n8:20. Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance\nwhich is administered by us.\n\n8:21. For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also\nbefore men.\n\n8:22. And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often\nproved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent: with much\nconfidence in you,\n\n8:23. Either for Titus, who is my companion and fellow labourer towards\nyou, or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ.\n\n8:24. Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the\nevidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 9\n\nA further exhortation to almsgiving. The fruits of it.\n\n9:1. For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is\nsuperfluous for me to write unto you.\n\n9:2. For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the\nMacedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your\nemulation hath provoked very many.\n\n9:3. Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of\nconcerning you be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said)\nyou may be ready:\n\n9:4. Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you\nunprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.\n\n9:5. Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they\nwould go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be\nready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.\n\n9:6. Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly:\nand he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings.\n\n9:7. Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or\nof necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.\n\n9:8. And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always,\nhaving all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work,\n\n9:9. As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the\npoor: his justice remaineth for ever.\n\n9:10. And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread\nto eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits\nof your justice:\n\n9:11. That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all\nsimplicity which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.\n\n9:12. Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the\nwant of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the\nLord.\n\n9:13. By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience of\nyour confession unto the gospel of Christ and for the simplicity of your\ncommunicating unto them and unto all.\n\n9:14. And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of\nthe excellent grace of God in you.\n\n9:15. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 10\n\nTo stop the calumny and boasting of false apostles, he set forth the\npower of his apostleship.\n\n10:1. Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of\nChrist: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am\nbold toward you.\n\n10:2. But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with\nthat confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who\nreckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.\n\n10:3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the\nflesh.\n\n10:4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God,\nunto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,\n\n10:5. And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of\nGod: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience\nof Christ:\n\n10:6. And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your\nobedience shall be fulfilled.\n\n10:7. See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any\nman trust to himself, that he is Christ's let him think this again with\nhimself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also.\n\n10:8. For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the\nLord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I\nshould not be ashamed.\n\n10:9. But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by\nepistles,\n\n10:10. (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but\nhis bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):\n\n10:11. Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by\nepistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.\n\n10:12. For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend\nthemselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves\nwith ourselves.\n\n10:13. But we will not glory beyond our measure: but according to the\nmeasure of the rule which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach\neven unto you.\n\n10:14. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached\nnot unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.\n\n10:15. Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having\nhope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our\nrule abundantly.\n\n10:16. Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel:\nnot to glory in another man's rule, in those things that are made ready\nto our hand.\n\n10:17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.\n\n10:18. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God\ncommendeth.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 11\n\nHe is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians\nshould be imposed upon by the false apostles.\n\n11:1. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do\nbear with me.\n\nMy folly... So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly\nspeaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the\napostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed to\nhis charge.\n\n11:2. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have\nespoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin\nto Christ.\n\n11:3. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so\nyour minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in\nChrist.\n\n11:4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not\npreached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received;\nor another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear with\nhim.\n\n11:5. For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great\napostles.\n\n11:6. For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all\nthings we have been made manifest to you.\n\n11:7. Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be\nexalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?\n\n11:8. I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your\nministry.\n\n11:9. And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to\nno man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came\nfrom Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being\nburthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.\n\n11:10. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be\nbroken off in me in the regions of Achaia.\n\n11:11. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.\n\n11:12. But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion\nfrom them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be\nfound even as we.\n\n11:13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming\nthemselves into the apostles of Christ.\n\n11:14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an\nangel of light.\n\n11:15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as\nthe ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.\n\n11:16. I say again (Let no man think me to be foolish: otherwise take me\nas one foolish, that I also may glory a little):\n\n11:17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were\nin foolishness, in this matter of glorying.\n\n11:18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.\n\n11:19. For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise.\n\n11:20. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour\nyou, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you\non the face.\n\n11:21. I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this\npart. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.\n\n11:22. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I.  They\nare the seed of Abraham: so am I.\n\n11:23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am\nmore; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above\nmeasure, in deaths often.\n\n11:24. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one.\n\n11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I\nsuffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.\n\n11:26. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers,\nin perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in\nthe city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils\nfrom false brethren:\n\n11:27. In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and\nthirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:\n\n11:28. Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the\nsolicitude for all the churches.\n\nMy daily instance... The labours that come in, and press upon me every\nday.\n\n11:29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not\non fire?\n\n11:30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my\ninfirmity.\n\n11:31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for\never, knoweth that I lie not.\n\n11:32. At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king,\nguarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.\n\n11:33. And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and\nso escaped his hands.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 12\n\nHis raptures and revelations, His being buffeted by Satan. His fear for\nthe Corinthians.\n\n12:1. If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to\nvisions and revelations of the Lord.\n\n12:2. I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the\nbody, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a\none caught up to the third heaven.\n\n12:3. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I\nknow not: God knoweth):\n\n12:4. That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which\nit is not granted to man to utter.\n\n12:5. For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing\nbut in my infirmities.\n\n12:6. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish:\nfor I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me\nabove that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me.\n\n12:7. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there\nwas given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.\n\n12:8. For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart\nfrom me.\n\n12:9. And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is\nmade perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my\ninfirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.\n\nPower is made perfect... The strength and power of God more perfectly\nshines forth in our weakness and infirmity; as the more weak we are of\nourselves, the more illustrious is his grace in supporting us, and\ngiving us the victory under all trials and conflicts.\n\n12:10. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches,\nin necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I\nam weak, then am I powerful.\n\n12:11. I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have\nbeen commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are\nabove measure apostles, although I be nothing.\n\n12:12. Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all\npatience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.\n\n12:13. For what is there that you have had less than the other churches\nbut that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.\n\n12:14. Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will\nnot be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours,\nbut you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but\nthe parents for the children.\n\n12:15. But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls:\nalthough loving you more, I be loved less.\n\n12:16. But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught\nyou by guile.\n\n12:17. Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you?\n\n12:18. I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus\noverreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the\nsame steps?\n\n12:19. Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak\nbefore God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your\nedification.\n\n12:20. For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such\nas I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest\nperhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions,\nwhisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.\n\n12:21. Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn\nmany of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the\nuncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 13\n\nHe threatens the impenitent, to provoke them to penance.\n\n13:1. Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of\ntwo or three witnesses shall every word stand.\n\n13:2. I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to\nthem that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I\nwill not spare.\n\n13:3. Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you\nis not weak, but is mighty in you?\n\n13:4. For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by\nthe power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with\nhim by the power of God towards you.\n\n13:5. Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves.\nKnow you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless\nperhaps you be reprobates?\n\n13:6. But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.\n\n13:7. Now we pray God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear\napproved, but that you may do that which is good and that we may be as\nreprobates.\n\nReprobates... that is, without proof, by having no occasion of shewing\nour power in punishing you.\n\n13:8. For we can do nothing against the truth: but for the truth.\n\n13:9. For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we\npray for, your perfection.\n\n13:10. Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being\npresent, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the\nLord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction.\n\n13:11. For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be\nof one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be with\nyou.\n\n13:12. Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you.\n\n13:13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and the\ncommunication of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":7073}