Category: Daily Devotion

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 2 Corinthians‬ ‭7‬:‭9‬ ‭- What Paul did in his first letters and in his visit to the church in Corinth is the part of…

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭14‬ ‭- Here is a passage that is used so often in the Christian dating world to guide believers to not date/marry someone who isn’t a believer yet. Like two working different…

  For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 – The Corinthian church certainly had their opinions…

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. ‭‭‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:3-4‭ –…

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on…

  If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come! 1 Corinthians 16:22 – Maranatha, likely a word you don’t use to often in your vocabulary, but possibly a word you’ve heard in the church sphere before. It’s the Greek word for “Our Lord, Come!” It’s a plea and praise…

  Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” 1 Corinthians 15:33 – Here’s the verse that I have heard spoken to rebellious teens and seen plastered on youth room walls. While certainly this can be applied to the idea of teaching young ones that hanging out with the wrong crowd can lead you astray…

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. 1 Corinthians‬ ‭14‬:‭12‬ ‭- Once again we see Paul in this chapter speaking of the gifts of the Spirit. Now a fuller discussion on those would be good, but we don’t have space for that…