Second Corinthians is Paul's most personal letter and his hardest to outline, which is why a commentary on it has to decide early what holds the pieces together. Murray J. Harris works verse by verse from the Greek, with extended notes on the text and on the Greek syntax where it bears on the sense.

The exposition follows the comfort of the opening chapters, the ministry of the new covenant, the collection for Jerusalem and the sharp defense of apostleship in the closing chapters, where Paul argues his case from weakness rather than strength. Harris engages the ancient sources and modern scholarship throughout; the volume assumes a working knowledge of Greek.