01/10 ~ From New Testament Letters
🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)
13 - Were you in less favor than the rest of the churches? Because I didn’t burden you? Forgive me this wrong! 14 Here for a third time I am ready to come to you. And I won’t be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you yourselves. For the children aren’t expected to feed the the parents, but parents, the children. 15 So I will gladly even spend my soul {for the Lord’s sheep}. If I love abundantly, am I to be loved less?16 But granting that I myself didn’t burden you, I was crafty, and I caught you. {A fisher of men.} 17 No one I’ve sent, has exploited you.
18 It was me who urged Titus to go to you, and sent the brother with him. And in all innocence, for do we not act in the same spirit? And walk in the same steps? 19 Have you been thinking we’ve been defending ourselves to you? It’s in the sight of God that we’ve been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 20 For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish.
Will there be quarreling? Jealousy? Anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder? 21 I’m afraid when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and haven’t repented of [changed their mind and turned from] the impurity [akatharsia - from a - not, and katharsis - genuine, to have no mixture or contamination {rev.14:4} root of catharsis; impurity, contamination] they were practicing.
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:1-9
By Necessity Paraphrased
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