Paul's most personal letter — treasure in earthen vessels, strength in weakness.
"For we walk by faith, not by ______."
Paul's 'thorn in the flesh' appears here — he asked three times for its removal and got a better answer instead: 'My grace is sufficient for thee.'
This is Paul's most autobiographical letter: shipwrecked three times, beaten with rods, stoned, adrift a night and a day in the deep — the résumé nobody wants.
2 Corinthians contains the Bible's clearest one-line gospel swap: 'he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.'
'God loveth a cheerful giver' comes from chapter 9 — the original Greek for 'cheerful' is hilaron. Yes, as in hilarious.