In this passage, Paul talks about a messenger and a message. Paul himself being the messenger and the gospel of Jesus Christ being the message. And he’s concerned that the Corinthians have confused the two. And in rejecting the one, they are in danger of rejecting the other, and rejecting Paul, they are in danger of rejecting the message, Jesus […]

When Paul talks about boasting, he has in mind the idea of expressing where our confidence is. If you’re boasting in your wisdom, your intelligence, your strength, your beauty, your boasting is in something wrong. It’s prideful arrogance. But if your confidence is in the Lord, then your boasting is in that which is true. In Galatians, Paul says, God […]

In this chapter of 2 Corinthians, Paul confronts trusting in things other than God, and especially trusting in ourselves. The very first portion of this passage describes a deep despair that Paul was facing. He probably has in mind here what happens in Acts chapter 19. Paul spent over two years laboring among the Ephesians, and there was great fruit […]