Posted by: Bill Hornbeck | January 10, 2012

“not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.”

Today’s devotion comes from 2 Corinthians 6:3-13.
 
3 giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited, 4 but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger, 6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God;  by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left, 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true; 9 as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live;  as punished yet not put to death, 10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
 
11 Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.  12 You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.   13 Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.”  2 Corinthians 6:3-13.
 
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“To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak;  I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.”  1 Corinthians 9:22

“Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.  Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;  just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.”  1 Corinthians 10:31-33.


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