2 Corinthians 7:1-4
PAUL'S CONSOLATION AND JOY BECAUSE OF THE CORINTHIANS. A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S CONSOLATION AND JOY BECAUSE OF THE CORINTHIANS. A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING, THEREFORE, THESE PROMISES, DEARLY BELOVED, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
RECEIVE US; WE HAVE WRONGED NO MAN, WE HAVE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE HAVE DEFRAUDED NO MAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPEAK NOT THIS TO CONDEMN YOU; FOR I HAVE SAID BEFORE THAT YE ARE IN OUR HEARTS TO DIE AND LIVE WITH YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARD YOU, GREAT IS MY GLORYING OF YOU; I AM FILLED WITH COMFORT, I AM EXCEEDING JOYFUL IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION. The first verse completes the appeal of chapter 6, to receive not the grace of God in vain. And in order to make his entreaty very impressive and winning, t... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA, OUR FLESH HAD NO REST, BUT WE WERE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE; WITHOUT WERE FIGHTINGS, WITHIN WERE FEARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's comfort because they had accepted his rebuke:... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS GOD, THAT COMFORTS THOSE THAT ARE CAST DOWN, COMFORTED US BY THE COMING OF TITUS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT BY HIS COINING ONLY, BUT BY THE CONSOLATION WHEREWITH HE WAS COMFORTED IN YOU, WHEN HE TOLD US YOUR EARNEST DESIRE, YOUR MOURNING, YOUR FERVENT MIND TOWARD ME, SO THAT I REJOICED THE MORE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOUGH I MADE YOU SORRY WITH A LETTER, I DO NOT REPENT, THOUGH I DID REPENT; FOR I PERCEIVE THAT THE SAME EPISTLE HATH MADE YOU SORRY, THOUGH IT WERE BUT FOR A SEASON. Paul here elaborates the thought of v. 4, of his being filled with comfort. He had left Ephesus for Macedonia in a frame of mind... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I REJOICE, NOT THAT YE WERE MADE SORRY, BUT THAT YE SORROWED TO REPENTANCE; FOR YE WERE MADE SORRY AFTER A GODLY MANNER THAT YE MIGHT RECEIVE DAMAGE BY US IN NOTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's rejoicing over the result of his measures:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF; BUT THE SORROW OF THE WORLD WORKETH DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR, BEHOLD, THIS SELFSAME THING, THAT YE SORROWED AFTER A GODLY SORT, WHAT CAREFULNESS IT WROUGHT IN YOU, YE A, WHAT CLEARING OF YOURSELVES, YE A, WHAT INDIGNATION, YEA, WHAT FEAR, YEA, WHAT VEHEMENT DESIRE, YEA, WHAT ZEAL, YE A, WHAT REVENGE! IN ALL THINGS YE HAVE APPROVED YOURSELVES TO BE CLEAR I... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, THOUGH I WROTE UNTO YOU, I DID IT NOT FOR HIS CAUSE THAT HAD DONE THE WRONG, NOR FOR HIS CAUSE THAT SUFFERED WRONG, BUT THAT OUR CARE FOR YOU IN THE SIGHT OF GOD MIGHT APPEAR UNTO YOU. The apostle here develops his second thought more fully, that he was exceeding joyful in spite of all tr... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE WE WERE COMFORTED IN YOUR COMFORT; YEA, AND EXCEEDINGLY THE MORE JOYED WE FOR THE JOY OF TITUS, BECAUSE HIS SPIRIT WAS REFRESHED BY YOU ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
The joy of Titus over the good tidings which he brought:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF I HAVE BOASTED ANYTHING TO HIM OF YOU, I AM NOT ASHAMED; BUT AS WE SPAKE ALL THINGS TO YOU IN TRUTH, EVEN SO OUR BOASTING WHICH I MADE BEFORE TITUS IS FOUND A TRUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS INWARD AFFECTION IS MORE ABUNDANT TOWARD YOU, WHILST HE REMEMBERETH THE OBEDIENCE OF YOU ALL, HOW WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING YE RECEIVED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
I REJOICE, THEREFORE, THAT I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU IN ALL THINGS. The first words of v. 13 really are the concluding statement of the previous passage: Wherefore we have been comforted. That was the result of the entire transaction so far as the apostle was concerned. But in addition to his own co... [ Continue Reading ]