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Now this is our boast:

Our conscience testifies that

we have conducted ourselves

in the world, and especially in

our relations with you,

in the holiness and sincerity

that are from God.

We have done so not according to

worldly wisdom but according to

God's grace.

For we do not write you anything

you cannot read or understand.

And I hope that, as you have understood

us in part, you will come to understand

fully that you can boast of us just as

we will boast of you in the day of

the Lord Jesus.

Because I was confident of this,

I planned to visit you first so that

you might benefit twice.

I planned to visit you on my way to

Macedonia and to come back to you

from Macedonia, and then to have you

send me on my way to Judea.

2 Corinthians 1:12-16 

This is the Bible.

Some say Bible is difficult.

Now apostle Paul defence himself

because he is misundersood in this

childlike church in sinful Corinth.

Then he explains the rationale of

his mission journey and ask help.

I have never seen a story book

in humankind then the Bible that

talks about oneself and personal

yet wholistic and detail.

The 2 Corinthians is the Apostle Paul's second letter to the

Corinthian Churches. Letter is the most intimate and personal.

Two thousand years ago, the Corinth city in Greece reminds

us today's New York city. The Corinth seaboard city was

then a center of trade, merchandize, wealth and luxury.

Also there was the Venus temple which led people not only

to moral deterioration but also sexual disaster.

The original location of Humanism, which against Creator God

and focus on human, the Corinth city in Greece lay in

spiritually formless, empty and darkness.

Here by God's mercy small lights began to shine. They were the

Lord Jesus' house Churches. They belong to the low social class.

Envious and jealous devil attempted to destroy God's

House Churches by questioning Paul's integrity and Apostleship.

And it caused to delay and complicate the promised loving

collection as well for the poverty stricken Jerusalem church.  

It was the process of the life giving Gospel to us, and it

continues so. How beautiful are the feet those who

bring good news !