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2 Corinthians opens with “The God of All Comfort” and carries its history toward “A Thorn in the Flesh.” The most personal letter he wrote, and the least comfortable one. He tells of a man caught up to the third heaven, then of a thorn given to keep him from being exalted.
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2 Corinthians 1–4
The most personal letter he wrote, and the least comfortable one. He begins with comfort in tribulation and then admits that in Asia he despaired even of life. He explains why he changed his travel plans rather than come to punish them, forgives the man who hurt him, and describes the whole ministry as treasure carried in earthen vessels: troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
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2 Corinthians 5–7
An earthly tent taken down and a building of God put up. He is an ambassador, and God is not counting men’s trespasses against them. Then he tells them plainly that he wrote a letter which hurt them and that he is glad, not because they were made sorry but because the sorrow led somewhere, and he separates godly sorrow from the kind that only kills.
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2 Corinthians 8–9
Two chapters about a collection for the poor in Jerusalem, and he never commands it. He tells them about the Macedonians instead, who were in deep poverty and begged to be allowed to give. He sends men on ahead so nobody can accuse him of handling the money himself. Every man as he purposeth in his heart, not grudgingly, nor of necessity.
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2 Corinthians 10–11
Forced to defend himself against polished rivals, he lists the wrong credentials: beatings, shipwrecks, a night and a day in the deep, robbers, hunger, cold, and the daily weight of caring about the churches.
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2 Corinthians 12–13
He tells of a man caught up to the third heaven, then of a thorn given to keep him from being exalted. He asks three times for it to go, and is told that grace is sufficient and strength is made perfect in weakness, so he decides to boast about the weakness instead.
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