This study is part of our series of verse by verse studies of 2 Corinthians, the 47th book in the Bible. Taught by Sim Forder, one of our pastors, at our Sunday evening service on the 6th March 2022. You can watch or listen on this web page or save the audio for later listening.

Summary of this study

Jesus has paid for our sin. He has set us free. That shouldn’t only make a difference to our future, but to our today. First, Paul addresses ministry – that we should not cause offence in the way that we speak or act. There should be no scandal, no questionable motives or actions. Not only to please God, but that others might be saved.

Second, he clearly states that we should not enter business partnerships or marriage with unbelievers. And he uses the analogy of a yoke. In farming, care would be put into ensuring the yoke fit well. But more than the yoke itself, it was important to have to equal animals – and not try and have an ox and a donkey pulling the load. Because the result of that would be the pair going round in circles, and being ineffective at what they were yoked together for.