2 Corinthians 6:1-2 (WEL) So then, working together, we also encourage you not to receive God’s grace for no purpose. 2 For he says, “I heard you in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look! Now is the acceptable time. Look! Now is the day of salvation. [Isaiah…
Exodus 36:1 (NLT) “The LORD has gifted Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other skilled craftsmen with wisdom and ability to perform any task involved in building the sanctuary. Let them construct and furnish the Tabernacle, just as the LORD has commanded.” We learn: 1) God commissions whom he wishes. 2) God gifts those whom He…
2 Corinthians 5:19-20 (WEL) So then, we are ambassadors for Christ. In this sense, God is making an appeal through us. We beg of you on behalf of Christ, “Be reconciled to God.” 21 For he has made him, who knew no sin, “sin” for us, so that we might become God’s righteousness in…
2 Corinthians 5:16-19 (WEL) So then, we acknowledge no one according to the flesh. Yes, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we don’t know Him this way anymore. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are gone. Look! All has…
2 Corinthians 5:12-15 (WEL) We don’t promote ourselves to you again, but give you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have the facts [literally something] to answer those who place importance on appearance, instead of the heart. 13 So what if we are crazy? It is for God, but…
2 Corinthians 5:9-11 (WEL) So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are present or absent. 10 For all of us must appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ, in order that everyone may be rewarded according to what they did through this body, whether good or bad. 11 Therefore, knowing…
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 (WEL) Therefore, we can always be confident that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord 7 (For we live by faith, not by sight.) 8 We are confident and willing instead to be absent from the body and to be at home with the…
2 Corinthians 5:1-5 (WEL) For we know that if our earthly house, our tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 In this house, we are groaning, deeply longing to be clothed with our house which is from heaven. 3 So if…
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (WEL) For this is the reason we don’t give up even though our body [literally outward man] perishes, yet the inward is renewed day after day. 17 Our lightweight troubles, which are short-lived, bring us exceedingly greater and eternal weight of glory. 18 For we are not looking at the things…
2 Corinthians 4:13-15 (WEL) We have the same spirit of faith, just as it is written, “I believed, and so I spoke.” We also believe and speak, [Psalm 116:10] 14 Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus and will present us along with you. 15 For…