2 Corinthians 13:11–14 (NIV84) Sunday / June 19, 2011 11 Finally, brothers, good-by. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints send their greetings. 14 May the grace of the Lord Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the be with you all.

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

• 2 Corinthians 13:10 (NIV84) 10 This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.

 Aim for perfection- Be made complete, be perfect, Be restored.

 listen to my appeal - The word here in the original has two meanings. It means to exhort someone and also comfort them. There are cases when it is hard to distinguish between exhortation and comfort. Here in our text παρακαλεῖσθε embraces “both the word which consoles the sufferer and the word which admonishes the slack and weary.” Both the repentant and impenitent needed to listen up.

 be of one mind - NIV 1 Corinthians 1:10 I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.

 live in peace -

• And the God of love and peace will be with you.12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints send their greetings.

• 1 John 4:19–21 (NIV84) 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

• 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

• :9 (NIV84) 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

• Romans 5:8 (NIV84) 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. • 1 John 4:7–10 (NIV84) 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

• 1 Corinthians 12:3 (NIV84) 3 Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.