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2 Corinthians 2:17   Authorized (King James) Version:   “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”

How is God’s Word corrupted today?  The “But now” of the dispensation we live in?  If one would do a serious study of God’s Word of how it came to be, how was it given by God to man?  What is the timeline and where are we in this line of time.  What has God given us to see, believe, read, comprehend, concerning Him, us, and what He expects of us in this day?  “For we are laborers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.  “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”  1 Corinthians 3:10-11.  Was not Paul that masterbuilder?  What was furnished to Paul to build with?  By whom was it furnished?  What was the vehicle that God used by the Holy Spirit, to bring His Word to man?

So does man want to live God’s way and by His direction?  I recommend doing a Word study of these passages and see where they lead you.  Words to use may include scripture, book, written, pages and others will be added as one continues to see how God wrote His Word.  One may also want to do a study of the different versions to see how they came about in relation to the way God’s Word was carried from Moses, the prophets, Apostles, and others as was Luke and Jude.  

Man uses statements as “I only want to follow the original format and texts of the scripture.”  “The old archaic words are hard to read and confuse me.”  etc…  Why not if you’re really serious do a word and history study to see if what you believe is what the Holy Spirit has taught through His Word or what is pleasing to your ears.  “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;  and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.  But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”  2 Timothy 4:1-5.   

“Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” 2 Timothy 2:14-19  Read that passage word by word and hear with one's ears.  

A question I have often asked is this.  Would God over 3500 years keep adding to His Word the way He did and then when completed put it aside?   [Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Col 1:25:  another word to study out “fulfill” to see what it means].  Of all the newer versions that have been created recently, last 150 years being so much better, did God make a mistake?  Example:   “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.  The faith of Jesus or is it faith in Jesus.  That question has a large difference to me; faith of or faith in.  To me, it's His faithfulness to Himself [2 Tim 2:13] and His Word and me when I believed.  Whereas my faith in Him is the effect I receive because of my belief in what He has said.  Check it out, is that right;    With “If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.”  1 Corinthians 14:37-38

As per building on the foundation that Paul had laid as in 1 Corinthians 3:9-11  expound verses and show how Paul built through the WORD and we also by using and knowing scripture to build to see why we are who God has said that we are in Him.  To see the power of His word in us the hope of glory.  “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:  that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”  Philippians 3:9-10