2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
The word "grace" in Greek is "charis," which signifies unmerited favor and divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration and sanctification. In the context of the New Testament, it is the grace that comes through Jesus Christ, who is referred to as "Lord," emphasizing His divine authority and sovereignty. This grace is foundational to Christian belief, as it is through Jesus' sacrificial death and resurrection that believers receive salvation. Historically, the early church understood this grace as transformative, enabling believers to live in a manner pleasing to God. The invocation of Jesus' grace here underscores the centrality of Christ's redemptive work in the life of the church.

and the love of God
The Greek word for "love" is "agape," which denotes a selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love. This is the love that God the Father has for humanity, a love so profound that it led to the sending of His Son for the salvation of the world (John 3:16). In the historical context of the early church, this love was a radical concept, challenging the prevailing cultural norms of conditional and transactional relationships. The love of God is the source of all Christian love and is meant to be reflected in the lives of believers as they interact with one another and the world.

and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
The term "fellowship" comes from the Greek "koinonia," which implies a deep, intimate partnership and sharing. The Holy Spirit, as the third person of the Trinity, is the one who indwells believers, empowering and uniting them in the body of Christ. This fellowship is not merely a social connection but a spiritual communion that transcends human relationships. In the early church, the presence of the Holy Spirit was evident in the unity and shared life of the believers, as seen in Acts 2:42-47. The fellowship of the Holy Spirit is essential for the church's mission and the believer's spiritual growth.

be with you all
This phrase is a benediction, a prayerful wish for the presence and blessings of the Triune God to be with the recipients of the letter. The use of "all" indicates the inclusivity of this blessing, extending to every member of the Corinthian church, regardless of their status or struggles. In the broader scriptural context, this reflects the universal nature of God's grace, love, and fellowship, available to all who believe. Historically, such benedictions were common in Pauline letters, serving as a reminder of the continuous presence and support of God in the lives of believers. This closing statement encapsulates the essence of Christian community, rooted in the divine presence and work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Paul the Apostle
The author of 2 Corinthians, Paul is writing to the church in Corinth, addressing various issues and providing guidance and encouragement.

2. Corinth
A major city in ancient Greece, known for its wealth and moral challenges. The church in Corinth faced many issues, including divisions and misunderstandings about Christian doctrine.

3. The Lord Jesus Christ
Central to the Christian faith, Jesus is the source of grace, which is unmerited favor and divine assistance given to believers.

4. God the Father
Representing divine love, God the Father is the source of all love, which is foundational to the Christian life.

5. The Holy Spirit
The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit provides fellowship, guidance, and empowerment to believers.
Teaching Points
Understanding the Trinity
This verse encapsulates the Trinity's role in the believer's life. Each person of the Trinity contributes uniquely to our spiritual journey.

Living in Grace
Embrace the grace of Jesus Christ in daily life, recognizing it as the foundation for salvation and spiritual growth.

Experiencing God's Love
Reflect on the love of God as a transformative force that compels us to love others and live in obedience to His commands.

Fellowship of the Spirit
Engage in community and fellowship with other believers, recognizing the Holy Spirit's role in uniting and empowering the church.

Holistic Christian Living
This verse encourages a balanced Christian life, where grace, love, and fellowship are actively pursued and experienced.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does understanding the roles of the Trinity enhance your relationship with God?

2. In what ways can you actively live out the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in your daily interactions?

3. Reflect on a time when you experienced the love of God in a profound way. How did it impact your faith journey?

4. How can you contribute to the fellowship of the Holy Spirit within your local church community?

5. Consider other scriptures that speak about grace, love, and fellowship. How do they deepen your understanding of 2 Corinthians 13:14?
Connections to Other Scriptures
John 1:14
This verse speaks of Jesus as the embodiment of grace and truth, connecting to the grace mentioned in 2 Corinthians 13:14.

1 John 4:8
This verse declares that God is love, reinforcing the love of God mentioned in the passage.

Acts 2:42
This verse describes the early church's devotion to fellowship, which is facilitated by the Holy Spirit, as mentioned in 2 Corinthians 13:14.
BenedictionJ.R. Thomson 2 Corinthians 13:14
Communion Human and DivineBp. Phillips Brooks.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Apostolic BenedictionR. Hole, M. A.2 Corinthians 13:14
The BenedictionE. Hurndall 2 Corinthians 13:14
The Benediction of the ChurchT. T. Lynch.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Christian BenedictionR. Tuck 2 Corinthians 13:14
The Communion of the Holy SpiritA. G. Brown.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Divine TrinityF. W. Walters.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Threefold BenedictionE. Hatch, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:14
The TrinityGeorge B. Stevens, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Trinity a Practical TruthBp. Huntington.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Trinity in UnityJ. Natt, B. D.2 Corinthians 13:14
The Triune BlessingH. G. Youard.2 Corinthians 13:14
Paul's Epistolary Farewell to the CorinthiansD. Thomas, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:1-14
Christian UnityBp. Horne.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
FarewellW. Cadman, M. A.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Parting TendernessC. Lipscomb 2 Corinthians 13:11-14
PerfectionC. A. Bartol.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
PerfectionJ. Edwards, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Perfection and ComfortR. H. Story, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Perfection in ChristMark Guy Pearse.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
The City of PeaceT. Adams.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
The Highest Character and the Highest CompanionD. Thomas, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Unity, Peace, and BlessednessC. V. Rensselaer, D. D.2 Corinthians 13:11-14
People
Corinthians, Paul
Places
Achaia, Corinth
Topics
Amen, Christ, Communion, Fellowship, Ghost, Grace, Harmony, Holy, Love, Spirit
Dictionary of Bible Themes
2 Corinthians 13:14

     1085   God, love of
     1170   God, unity of
     1511   Trinity, relationships in
     1512   Trinity, equality of
     2018   Christ, divinity
     2224   Christ, the Lord
     3015   Holy Spirit, divinity
     3025   Holy Spirit, personality
     3035   Holy Spirit, presence of
     5971   uniqueness
     6689   mercy, of Christ
     7025   church, unity
     7032   unity, God's people
     7923   fellowship, in gospel
     8138   monotheism
     8296   love, nature of
     8638   benedictions

2 Corinthians 13:12-14

     5328   greeting

Library
Self-Examination
The Corinthians were the critics of the apostles' age. They took to themselves great credit for skill in learning and in language, and as most men do who are wise in their own esteem, they made a wrong use of their wisdom and learning--they began to criticise the apostle Paul. They criticised his style. "His letters," say they, "are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible." Nay, not content with that, they went so far as to deny his apostleship, and for once
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858

How to Use the Prayer-Book
Before the Service.--If possible be in your place a few moments before the appointed hour, that you may collect your thoughts and prepare for the service. On entering, go at once quietly to your seat, kneel down, and say a short prayer for yourself and your fellow-worshipers. The Collect for the Nineteenth or the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity, or the Collect, "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open," at the beginning of the Communion Office, you may find appropriate. When you have said
Jacob A. Regester—The Worship of the Church

"And if Christ be in You, the Body is Dead Because Sin,"
Rom. viii. 10.--"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because sin," &c. This is the high excellence of the Christian religion, that it contains the most absolute precepts for a holy life, and the greatest comforts in death, for from these two the truth and excellency of religion is to be measured, if it have the highest and perfectest rule of walking, and the chiefest comfort withal. Now, the perfection of Christianity you saw in the rule, how spiritual it is, how reasonable, how divine, how
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

Sermon.
The great and blessed God that made heaven and earth, the seas and the great fountains of the deep, and rivers of water, the Almighty JEHOVAH, who is from everlasting to everlasting. He also made man and woman; and his design was to make them eternally happy and blessed. And therefore he made man in his own image; "in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them:" He made them after his own likeness holy, wise, merciful, just, patient, and humble, endued them with knowledge, righteousness,
William Penn—A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House

Reprobation.
In discussing this subject I shall endeavor to show, I. What the true doctrine of reprobation is not. 1. It is not that the ultimate end of God in the creation of any was their damnation. Neither reason nor revelation confirms, but both contradict the assumption, that God has created or can create any being for the purpose of rendering him miserable as an ultimate end. God is love, or he is benevolent, and cannot therefore will the misery of any being as an ultimate end, or for its own sake. It is
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology

On Being Filled with the Spirit
Text.--Be filled with the Spirit.--Eph. v. 18. SEVERAL of my last lectures have been on the subject of prayer, and the importance of having the spirit of prayer, of the intercession of the Holy Ghost. Whenever the necessity and importance of the Spirit's influences are held forth, there can be no doubt that persons are in danger of abusing the doctrine, and perverting it to their own injury. For instance, when you tell sinners that without the Holy Spirit they never will repent, they are very liable
Charles Grandison Finney—Lectures on Revivals of Religion

The Clergyman and the Prayer Book.
Dear pages of ancestral prayer, Illumined all with Scripture gold, In you we seem the faith to share Of saints and seers of old. Whene'er in worship's blissful hour The Pastor lends your heart a voice, Let his own spirit feel your power, And answer, and rejoice. In the present chapter I deal a little with the spirit and work of the Clergyman in his ministration of the ordered Services of the Church, reserving the work of the Pulpit for later treatment. THE PRAYER BOOK NOT PERFECT BUT INESTIMABLE.
Handley C. G. Moule—To My Younger Brethren

The Greatest of These is Love.
"The greatest of these is Love."-- 1 Cor. xiii. 13. That the shedding abroad of Love and the glowing of its fire through the heart is the eternal work of the Holy Spirit, is stated by no one so pithily as by St. Paul in the closing verse of his hymn of Love. Faith, Hope, and Love are God's most precious gifts; but Love far surpasses the others in preciousness. Compared with all heavenly gifts, Faith, Hope, and Love stand highest, but of these three Love is the greatest. All spiritual gifts are precious,
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

Of the Character of the Unregenerate.
Ephes. ii. 1, 2. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. AMONG all the various trusts which men can repose in each other, hardly any appears to be more solemn and tremendous, than the direction of their sacred time, and especially of those hours which they spend in the exercise of public devotion.
Philip Doddridge—Practical Discourses on Regeneration

The Third Wall.
The third wall falls of itself, as soon as the first two have fallen; for if the Pope acts contrary to the Scriptures, we are bound to stand by the Scriptures, to punish and to constrain him, according to Christ's commandment; "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every
Martin Luther—First Principles of the Reformation

Concerning the Scriptures.
Concerning the Scriptures. From these revelations of the Spirit of God to the saints, have proceeded the Scriptures of Truth, which contain, I. A faithful historical account of the actings of God's people in divers ages; with many singular and remarkable providences attending them. II. A prophetical account of several things, whereof some are already past, and some yet to come. III. A full and ample account of all the chief principles of the doctrine of Christ, held forth in divers precious declarations,
Robert Barclay—Theses Theologicae and An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

Assurance of Salvation.
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may knew that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (1 John v. 13. ) There are two classes who ought not to have Assurance. First: those who are in the Church, but who are not converted, having never been born of the Spirit. Second: those not willing to do God's will; who are not ready to take the place that God has mapped out for them, but want to fill some other place.
Dwight L. Moody—The Way to God and How to Find It

Testimonies.
"Without faith it is impossible to please God."--Heb. xi. 6. In order to prevent the possibility of being led into paths of error, faith is directed, not to a Christ of the imagination, but to "the Christ in the garments of the Sacred Scripture," as Calvin expresses it. And therefore we must discriminate between (1) faith as a faculty implanted in the soul without our knowledge; (2) faith as a power whereby this implanted faculty begins to act; and (3) faith as a result,--since with this faith (1)
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit

The Christian's Peace and the Christian's Consistency
PHILIPPIANS i. 21-30 He will be spared to them--Spiritual wealth of the paragraph--Adolphe Monod's exposition--Charles Simeon's testimony--The equilibrium and its secret--The intermediate bliss--He longs for their full consistency--The "gift" of suffering Ver. 21. +For to me, to live is Christ+; the consciousness and experiences of living, in the body, are so full of Christ, my supreme Interest, that CHRIST sums them all up; +and to die+, the act of dying,[1] +is gain+, for it will usher me in
Handley C. G. Moule—Philippian Studies

Concerning the Ministry.
Concerning the Ministry. As by the light or gift of God all true knowledge in things spiritual is received and revealed, so by the same, as it is manifested and received in the heart, by the strength and power thereof, every true minister of the gospel is ordained, prepared, and supplied in the work of the ministry; and by the leading, moving, and drawing hereof ought every evangelist and Christian pastor to be led and ordered in his labour and work of the gospel, both as to the place where, as to
Robert Barclay—Theses Theologicae and An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

Concerning Perfection.
Concerning Perfection. In whom this pure and holy birth is fully brought forth, the body of death and sin comes to be crucified and removed, and their hearts united and subjected to the truth; so as not to obey any suggestions or temptations of the evil one, but to be free from actual sinning and transgressing of the law of God, and in that respect perfect: yet doth this perfection still admit of a growth; and there remaineth always in some part a possibility of sinning, where the mind doth not most
Robert Barclay—Theses Theologicae and An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

Reprobation Asserted: Or, the Doctrine of Eternal Election and Reprobation Promiscuously Handled, in Eleven Chapters.
WHEREIN THE MOST MATERIAL OBJECTIONS MADE BY THE OPPOSERS OF THIS DOCTRINE, ARE FULLY ANSWERED; SEVERAL DOUBTS REMOVED, AND SUNDRY CASES OF CONSCIENCE RESOLVED. BY JOHN BUNYAN OF BEDFORD, A LOVER OF PEACE AND TRUTH. 'What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.'--Romans 11:7 London: Printed for G. L., and are to be sold in Turn-stile-alley, in Holbourn. Small 4to, 44 pages. EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT. This valuable tract
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

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