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2 Corinthians: The Glories and Responsibilities of Christian Service is unavailable, but you can change that!

The second letter to the Corinthians is Paul’s personal appeal to the church he founded in Corinth, a church influenced against Paul by false prophets. In describing the type of church leader that is pleasing to God, Paul reveals more about himself than in any other of his writings. It is as if we can see into his soul as he lovingly points out the faulty attitudes of the church at Corinth. In...

‘And even if our gospel is veiled’ (v. 3)—why ‘even’? Because it might seem strange to the readers that, with the coming of the New Covenant, there should be any veiling. They might well have thought this to be a condition only of the Old Covenant and not of the New. Paul recognized that this was not so, but that in every age Satan is at work in seeking to blind people to God’s truth. After all, the Old Covenant applied to the Jews but the gospel goes out to men and women of every nation and of all
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