II Corinthians 12:10-12:21

Love in Action

In 2 Corinthians 12:10?21, Paul demonstrates what true, Christlike love looks like in real life ? a love marked by humility, sacrifice, and sincere concern for others? spiritual growth. In this message, Pastor Lloyd reminds us that genuine love is more than words or feelings; it is not prideful nor domineering. Love is expressed through patient endurance, servant-hearted humility, and a willingness to invest in others, even when it costs us. As believers, we are called to reflect the heart of Christ by putting love into action by serving others.

  1. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
  2. I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
  3. Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
  4. For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
  5. Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
  6. And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  7. But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
  8. Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
  9. I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
  10. Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
  11. For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
  12. And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.