{"id":1726,"date":"2017-09-26T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:38:09","slug":"2-corinthians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/2-corinthians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Corinthians 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chapter two<\/strong> best starts with 2 Corinthians 1:23, where Paul began to explain his reason for not visiting them as he had planned. Due to some issues within the church (especially factions and immorality; see 1 Corinthians 3 and 5), Paul\u2019s previous visit had been <em>\u201cpainful\u201d<\/em> for all of them, and he did not want to do that again (2 Corinthians 2:1-4). Instead, he chose to write this letter to \u201ctest the waters\u201d and see if they had responded appropriately to his previous correction. 2 Corinthians 2:5-9 reveals that they had obeyed his instructions, disciplining their sinning member (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-5). However, upon his repentance, they had not forgiven him, so Paul urged them to extend grace and forgiveness, so the man would not be <em>\u201coverwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair\u201d<\/em> in his spiritual life.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Paul noted that his command to excommunicate the man had been obeyed <em>\u201cby the majority\u201d<\/em> (2 Corinthians 2:6). This is an early hint that there were still those in the Corinthian church who refused to acknowledge Paul\u2019s apostolic authority (see 1 Corinthians 3:1-4). Later parts of this letter confirm that to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Paul had been so desperate to hear from Titus about the situation in Corinth (whether they had obeyed or rejected him) that even preaching the gospel, which was his driving passion (1 Corinthians 9:16-23), could not ease his mind and heart. It seems he cut short his ministry in Troas so that he could find Titus and find out about Corinth (2 Corinthians 2:10-13).<\/p>\n<p>In the final few verses, Paul reminded them again of his love for them and for the gospel, even though he was being charged with greed and preaching only for money (2 Corinthians 2:14-17). This self-defense will continue into chapter three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter two best starts with 2 Corinthians 1:23, where Paul began to explain his reason for not visiting them as he had planned. Due to some issues within the church (especially factions and immorality; see 1 Corinthians 3 and 5), Paul\u2019s previous visit had been \u201cpainful\u201d for all of them, and he did not want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[34,32],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","tag-1corinthians","tag-2corinthians"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Chapter two best starts with 2 Corinthians 1:23, where Paul began to explain his reason for not visiting them as he had planned. Due to some issues within the church (especially factions and immorality; see 1 Corinthians 3 and 5), Paul\u2019s previous visit had been \u201cpainful\u201d for all of them, and he did not want&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}