How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
ENCOURAGEMENT TO GIVE GENEROUSLY
ENCOURAGEMENT TO GIVE GENEROUSLY
People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
ENCOURAGEMENT TO GIVE GENEROUSLY
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
THE JOYOUS EFFECT OF GODLY SORROW
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ.
THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
LONGING TO BE “AT HOME WITH THE LORD”
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
THE INWARD LIFE TRIUMPHANT OVER AFFLICTION
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
MINISTERS OF THE NEW COVENANT
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
THE SAVOR OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.