Chapter thirteen concludes this letter with Paul urging the Corinthians to examine themselves before God before Paul arrived so that his fears (2 Corinthians 12:20-21) would not be realized (2 Corinthians 13:1-3). He warned them that he would not be timid in using his apostolic authority to discipline any of them who rejected his letters […]
Chapter twelve concludes Paulās self-defense with his final three points. First, in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 he recounted an experience that happened āfourteen years ago.ā He referred to himself in the third person (āI know a manā), because even in his self-defense his purpose was to point the Corinthians back to Jesus rather than to himself
Chapter eleven continues Paulās defense of himself to the Corinthian believers. Many of them had been on the verge of rejecting him, but his previous letter brought them back a little. Now he wanted to stop their retreat once-and-for-all. This chapter contains some of the harshest words we have recorded from Paulās hand toward believers
