Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 13:5)

Spiritual self-examination, with God's grace and forgiveness, leads to freedom.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 13:5)

'Not' seeing God, in the works of God, is a failure on our part.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 13:6)

Just because you fail, it does not make you a failure.

Life Lesson (2 Corinthians 13:8)

You cannot run from the Truth when it lives inside.

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children.

That is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup.

But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.

19 The thought of my suffering and homelessness
is bitter beyond words.
20 I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.
21 Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:
22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
23 Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.

As you test yourselves, I hope you will recognize that we have not failed the test of apostolic authority.

8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

So don't bother correcting mockers;
they will only hate you.
But correct the wise,
and they will love you.

For we cannot oppose the truth, but must always stand for the truth.

7 I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave, you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.

Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
"For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.