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Come Follow Me 2023: 2 Corinthians 1–7
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2 Corinthians 1–7

September 11–17
“Be Ye Reconciled to God”

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Commentary

The New Testament Minute is a commentary series made especially for the free ScripturePlus app, which features insights from New Testament scholars. many of the insights in the New Testament Minute are gleaned from the BYU New Testament Commentary series. Lynne Hilton Wilson has written a commentary to supplement her New Testament video series.

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Structure your personal scripture study by following a 15-minute, day-by-day plan. Each day's assignment includes the required scripture passages from the Come, Follow Me curriculum, as well as suggestions for additional resources to bring context and understanding to your study. For the best experience, use our Reading Plan in the free ScripturePlus app! You can track your progress and have access to the best resources.

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Joseph Smith Translation Variants

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2 Corinthians 2

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(4) For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

(4) For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

2 Corinthians 3

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(16) Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

(16) Nevertheless, when their heart shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

2 Corinthians 4

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(12) So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

(12) So then itworketh death unto us, but life unto you.

(15) For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

(15) For we bearall things for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 5

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(10) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

(10) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive a reward of the deeds done in the body, things according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

(13) For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

(13) For we bear record that we are not beside ourselves. For whether we glory it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your sakes.

(14) For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

(14) For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, thanare all dead.

(16) Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

(16) Wherefore henceforth live we no more after the flesh: yea, though we once lived after the flesh, yet since we have known Christ. Now henceforth live we no more after the flesh.

(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

(17) Therefore, if any man live in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

(18) And receivethall the things of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

(19) To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

(19) To wit that God is in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 6

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(1) We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

(1) We then, as workers together with Christ, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

Reading Resources

2 Corinthians 1–7

Lynne Hilton Wilson, "2 Corinthians 1-7," Come Follow Me: The New Testament, 2019.

Background to the Pauline Epistles:

  • Frank F. Judd Jr., “The Epistles of the Apostle Paul: An Overview,” in New Testament History, Culture, and Society: A Background to the Texts of the New Testament, ed. Lincoln H. Blumell (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019), 419-445.
  • Eric D. Huntsman, “The Occasional Nature, Composition, and Structure of Paul’s Letters,” in How the New Testament Came to Be: The Thirty-fifth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006), 190–207.

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