Lesson 2065

(Lesson 2065)(07-29-17) 2 Corinthians 11:1-5
    “Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.”


    In today’s quote, Paul warned the Corinthians against the false apostles of the Jews who were trying to stir trouble among the churches Paul and the others had established. Many of the Jews had distorted the doctrine of Christ by trying to force much of the Law of Moses upon those early Christians. Even Peter and James had come into conflict with Paul as they tried to impose the Law upon the children of God who had been eternally saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.

    In this quote, Paul espressed his anger and jealousy toward those who would so quickly turn away and follow the false doctrines that were being spread by the Jews.~