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2 Corinthians 1 Bible study: The God of all comfort
2 Corinthians 1 opens by blessing "the Father of mercies and God of all comfort" (1:3), and in five verses the WEB has comfort, comforts or comforted ten times. Then it says of the promises of God, "in him is the “Yes.”" (1:20).
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“For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.”
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“2 Corinthians 1:9 gives a purpose: "that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God".”
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Two senders, and a blessing
The letter opens with two names: "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother" (1:1). It is sent "to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia" (1:1), with "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." (1:2). Then, before anything else, it blesses God: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort" (1:3) (tap mercies, comfort). In the WEB's 2 Corinthians, Timothy is named only here and in 1:19. Since the letter opens with two names, these notes say "the letter" for its "I" and its "we", and say nothing of when or where it was written.
Where the Old Testament leads here
In him is the "Yes"
Joshua 21:45leads to2 Corinthians 1:20
"Nothing failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass" (21:45). Paul writes of "the Son of God, Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 1:19): "For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.”" (2 Corinthians 1:20). Paul doesn't cite Joshua 21, so setting the two side by side is a reading. Some hear Paul saying of every promise of God, in Jesus, what Joshua 21:45 says of the LORD's good word to Israel: none of it failed. Others read 2 Corinthians 1:20 within its own setting, where Paul says his own word to the Corinthians "was not ‘Yes and no’" (2 Corinthians 1:18), and Joshua 21:45 within its own, the LORD's word "to the house of Israel", each in its own place.
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The Greek word behind it
παράκλησιςparaklesissay par-AK-lay-sis
Strong's: "imploration, hortation, solace". "the Father of mercies and God of all comfort" (1:3). In 1:3-7 the Greek has this noun six times, and the WEB gives it as comfort each time; alongside it, four times, is the verb Strong's gives it as coming from (tap comforted). 2 Corinthians has the noun eleven times, more than any other book of the New Testament (counted in RP2018). Later the letter has it in "but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you" (7:7). Favor's Acts 4 studies the noun and counts it in Acts.
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2 Corinthians 1 Bible study questions
- 1"that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." (1:4). What helps you comfort someone well?
- 2"you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication" (1:11). What could your Bible study pray for together this week?
- 3"For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.”" (1:20). Which promise of God would you like to hold on to this week?
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