2 Corinthians 10:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

We stretch not

The gospel

Bible References

We stretch not

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?

For I will not dare to speak of anything but what Christ has done through me to win the obedience of the Gentiles--

Yet to us God revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit fathoms all things, even the inmost depths of God's being.

What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Have I not seen our Lord Jesus? Are not you yourselves my work achieved in union with the Lord?

The gospel

Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

The beginning of the Good News about Jesus Christ.

But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus--which was to declare the Good News of the Love of God.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News; it is the power of God which brings Salvation to every one who believes in Christ, to the Jew first, but also to the Greek.

On the day when God passes judgment on men's inmost lives, as the Good News that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus.

Now to him who is able to strengthen you, as promised in the Good News entrusted to me and in the proclamation of Jesus Christ, in accordance with the revelation of that hidden purpose, which in past ages was kept secret but now has been revealed

I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different 'Good News,'

On account of the hope which awaits its fulfillment in Heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true Message of the Good News which reached you--

as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.