1 Corinthians 4:21

21What do you wish? ^aShall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

1 Corinthians 5:5

5you are ^bto deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so ^cthat his spirit may be saved ^din the day of the Lord. ▼

▼Some manuscripts add Jesus

2 Corinthians 2

1For I made up my mind ^fnot to make another painful visit to you. 2For ^gif I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? 3And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, ^hfor I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. 4For ⁱI wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Forgive the Sinner

5Now ^jif anyone has caused pain, ^khe has caused it not to me, but ^lin some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. 6For such a one, ^mthis punishment by the majority is enough, 7so ⁿyou should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 9For this is why I wrote, that I might ^otest you and know ^pwhether you are obedient in everything. 10Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, 11so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for ^qwe are not ignorant of his designs.

Triumph in Christ

12When ^rI came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though ^sa door was opened for me in the Lord, 13my spirit ^twas not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

14But ^uthanks be to God, who in Christ always ^vleads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads ^wthe fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among ^xthose who are being saved and among ^ythose who are perishing, 16 ^zto one a fragrance from death to death, ^aato the other a fragrance from life to life. ^abWho is sufficient for these things? 17For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3

Ministers of the New Covenant

1 ^acAre we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, ^adas some do, ^aeletters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 ^afYou yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our ▼

▼Some manuscripts your

hearts, to be known and read by all. 3And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of ^ahthe living God, not on ^aitablets of stone but on ^ajtablets of ^akhuman hearts. ▼

▼Greek fleshly hearts

4 ^amSuch is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 ^anNot that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but ^aoour sufficiency is from God, 6who has made us sufficient to be ^apministers of ^aqa new covenant, not of ^arthe letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but ^asthe Spirit gives life.

7Now if ^atthe ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory ^authat the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 8will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? 9For if there was glory in ^avthe ministry of condemnation, ^awthe ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. 10Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. 11For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.

12Since we have such a hope, ^axwe are very bold, 13not like Moses, ^aywho would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. 14But ^aztheir minds were ^bahardened. For to this day, ^bbwhen they read ^bcthe old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16But when ^bdone ▼

▼Greek he

turns to the Lord, ^bfthe veil is removed. 17Now the Lord ▼

▼Or this Lord

is the Spirit, and where ^bhthe Spirit of the Lord is, there is ^bifreedom. 18And we all, with unveiled face, ^bjbeholding ^bkthe glory of the Lord, ▼

▼Or reflecting the glory of the Lord

^bmare being transformed into the same image ^bnfrom one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 10:2

2I beg of you ^bothat when I am present I may not have to show ^bpboldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:6-11

6 ^bqbeing ready to punish every disobedience, ^brwhen your obedience is complete.

7 ^bsLook at what is before your eyes. ^btIf anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as ^buhe is Christ’s, ^bvso also are we. 8For even if I boast a little too much of ^bwour authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. 9I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but ^bxhis bodily presence is weak, and ^byhis speech of no account.” 11Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.

2 Corinthians 12:20

20For I fear that perhaps ^bzwhen I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 13:2

2 ^caI warned ^cbthose who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that ^ccif I come again I will not spare them—

2 Corinthians 13:10

10For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come ^cdI may not have to be ^cesevere in my use of ^cfthe authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

1 Timothy 1:20

20among whom are ^cgHymenaeus and ^chAlexander, whom I ^cihave handed over to Satan that they may learn not to ^cjblaspheme.