1 and 2 Corinthians - Bible Texts

Lesson 13: September 19-25

The verses listed, except where noted, are in the American Standard Version (ASV).

Grace, Love, and Fellowship

Memory Text: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all" (2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV).
Sabbath Afternoon Readings ↥        
2 Cor 8:9

9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

Rom 16:20

20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

1 John 4:8–11

8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

2 Cor 13:11

11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:14

14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Phil 2:1–2

1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, 2make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Gal 4:4–6

4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

1 Corinthians 1:10

10Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

2 Corinthians 1:3–7

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. 6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: 7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

2 Cor 1:4, 6

4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

Sunday Readings ↥        
September 20
2 Cor 1:2

2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor 13:14

14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

2 Cor 8:9

9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

Phil 2:8

8and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

Romans 16:20

20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Galatians 6:18

18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

Philippians 4:23

23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:28

28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Rom 5:15

15But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many.

Rom 5:17

17For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

Rom 1:7

7to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 1:3

3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 16:23

23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Gal 1:3

3Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Phil 1:2

2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph 6:24

24Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with a love incorruptible.

2 Cor 4:15

15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

2 Cor 12:9

9And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Monday Readings ↥        
September 21
2 Cor 13:14

14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

John 3:16–17

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

John 3:16

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:17

17For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

Romans 8:37–39

37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:8–11

8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

First John 4:8

8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John 4:10, 14

10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

14And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Acts 3:20–21

20and that he may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you, even Jesus: 21whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old.

Matt 10:40

40He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

Mark 9:37

37Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

Rom 5:8

8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 3:16

16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 Cor 8:1

1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

1 Cor 13:1–3

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

1 Cor 16:14

14Let all that ye do be done in love.

Tuesday Readings ↥        
September 22
2 Cor 13:11

11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:14

14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Rom 15:5

5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

Rom 15:13

13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Rom 15:33

33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Rom 16:20

20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

1 Cor 14:33

33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace.

As in all the churches of the saints,

Phil 4:9

9The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

1 Thess 5:23

23And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor 1:3

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

Wednesday Readings ↥        
September 23
Phil 2:1–2

1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, 2make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Phil 2:1

1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

2 Cor 1:3

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

2 Cor 1:22

22who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

2 Cor 11:31

31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.

Rom 8:15–16

15For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

John 14:16–17, 26

16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, 17even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.

26But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.

John 15:26

26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:

1 Cor 2:4–5

4And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2:10–11

10But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.

1 Cor 2:13

13Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

1 Corinthians 3:16

16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 12-14
Read 1 Corinthians 12-14
1 Corinthians 12:11

11but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.

2 Cor 3:3

3being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:6, 17

6who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

17Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Cor 3:6

6who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2 Cor 3:17

17Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

1 Cor 14:12

12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

1 Cor 6:11

11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Thursday Readings ↥        
September 24
2 Corinthians 13:14

14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

1 Corinthians 1:3–4, 9

3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

9God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:16

16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?

2 Corinthians 1:2, 12

2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Romans 8:35

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 15:30

30Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Galatians 2:20

20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Eph 3:14–19

14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; 17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

Ephesians 3:19

19and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

Galatians 4:4–6

4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Gal 4:4

4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Gal 4:6

6And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Gen 3:5

5for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Gen 3:15

15and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

1 Cor 12:4–6

4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. 6And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all things in all.

Eph 4:4–6

4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

Eph 4:13

13till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Eph 1:3, 13–14

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

13in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Eph 5:18

18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

Friday Readings ↥        
September 25

Further Thought

1 John 4:16

16And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Isaiah 57:15

15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Habakkuk 3:6

6He stood, and measured the earth;

He beheld, and drove asunder the nations;

And the eternal mountains were scattered;

The everlasting hills did bow;

His goings were as of old.

James 1:17

17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.