Day by Day with Martin Luther

Read: Job 34:1-36:33 2nd Corinthians 4:1-12 Proverbs 22:10-12

“Setting an Example”

“For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord,
with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.”
[2nd Corinthians 4:5]

St. Paul says: “we do not want to lord it over your faith,” and “what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants” [2nd Corinthians 4:5]. Likewise, “you should not domineer over them” [1st Peter 5:3], as if it were your inheritance. They preached the pure faith to us and also offered their example, and let it serve us for this alone: that Christ might rule in us and faith remain pure, so that we don’t receive their word, and work as if it were their own, but that we learn Christ in both their words and works.