Author: Travis Snode

‘O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,)

‘As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.’ — 2 Corinthians 6:10 As Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he was having to combat the teaching of others who were undermining

‘Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.’ — 2 Corinthians 5:20   When Jesus was preparing to leave this world, He told

‘We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.’ — 2 Corinthians 5:8 The longer we live the more familiar with death we become. We learn that death

‘Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;’ — 2 Corinthians 4:1 It is not easy to follow and serve Jesus. That’s why Jesus said that those who want to follow Him must deny

‘Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:’ — 2 Corinthians 3:2 A power struggle was going on in Corinth. New teachers had come along seeking to undermine the authority and message of Paul.

‘To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for

‘For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.’ — 2

‘Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.’ — 1 Corinthians 16:13–14 As Paul closed out His letter to the Corinthians, in which he addresses many problems