◄ 2 Corinthians 3 Devotional Commentary ►
2 Corinthians 3:1
An important reason Paul wrote his second epistle to the Corinthians, was to denounce the legalistic teachings of Judaisers that had infiltrated the Corinthian church. They not only imposed their unscriptural doctrine on the believers there but also attempted to control their minds by denouncing Paul as a false teacher, which caused much confusion among the believers. In this section, Paul sought to contrast the superiority of read more...
2 Corinthians 3:3
Having laid out the amazing victory we have in Christ Whose sacrifice on the Cross became a sweet smelling fragrance to the Father, Paul announces that in Christ, we too have passed from death to life and have been commissioned by God to be epistles of Christ, declaring the truth of the gospel not with letters that are written with ink, but ones that have been inscribed, stamped, and sealed by the Holy Spirit Himself.
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2 Corinthians 3:4
The letters that are written by Paul and the epistles that other New Testament apostles penned, should thrill our hearts, for in them we gain exclusive information about our Heavenly Father and privileged access to Him through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are able to read and study the New Testament epistles and through them are enabled to come to a deeper knowledge and understanding of our great Creator God and our humble read more...
2 Corinthians 3:5
Legalism boasts in oneself to keep rules and regulations, but grace boasts only in the Lord. Keeping laws or rituals, whether self-imposed or insisted upon by a denomination or organisation, inflates the ego, for our sufficiency is dependent on my abilities and what I do. However, the gospel of grace nurtures humility, for it admits one's own inabilities and insufficiencies and depends completely on God and His abilities and sufficiency: "For we are read more...
2 Corinthians 3:17
This verse is part of a passage about the use and abuse of spiritual gifts. It precedes Paul's examination of the Christian Church and explanation of our membership in the Body of Christ. Each member is unique in the sight of God and together, we are God’s chosen vehicle on earth, through whom He makes Himself known to man.
We are God's representatives on earth during the Church dispensation, and Paul began his teaching by read more...
2 Corinthians 3:18
There is so much packed into this glorious verse of Scripture, that one could spend a lifetime looking as into a mirror at the glory of the Lord, and that would suffice. And yet, the verse tells us that as we continue to gaze into His loveliness and drink deeply of His grace, we too will start to be transformed into His glorious likeness, as we pass from one stage of glory to the next.
It is not the old sin nature that is being read more...
2 Corinthians 3:18
Simply reading these inspired words of Holy Writ which are part of God's eternal love-letter to human-kind, causes us to kneel in humble reverence before the throne of grace. And it causes us to worship our Father in heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ Who shed His blood so that condemned sinners might be made perfect before His face: "And so we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory read more...