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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...

to hell! That’s not merely an apparent contradiction, but utter nonsense! Not only so, but it is an insult to God, for it implies an inconsistency in his character. Moreover, these verses were certainly not written by a man who feared God’s awful sentence of condemnation, although, as we see in verses 9 and 10, by somebody who wanted to please the Lord in view of the judgement he would face as a believer. So then this fear must be a different type from what John has in mind. It is a reverential awe,
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