Gary Hampton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 10:18
Verse 18 Self-approval and commendation carries no weight. God's approval is based on service actually rendered and carries lasting value.
Verse 18 Self-approval and commendation carries no weight. God's approval is based on service actually rendered and carries lasting value.
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:18. _NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF_] Not the person who makes a parade of his own _attainments_; who preaches _himself_, and not _Christ Jesus the Lord_; and, far from being y...
FOR NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF ... - Not he who boasts of his talents and endowments. He is not to be judged by the estimate which he shall place on himself, but by the estimate which God shall fo...
III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....
PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because, just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
APPROVED. Greek. _dokimos._ See Romans 14:18,...
Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...
_For not he that commendeth himself is approved_ St Paul's self-commendation is only wrung from him by circumstances. The Corinthians will not judge of things except -after the appearance" (2 Corinthi...
ΣΥΝΙΣΤΆΝΩΝ (אBDFGMP 17, Orig.) rather than συνιστῶν (D3KL), from συνιστάω, a form which D3KL support in 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 6:4, and which BD 17, 39 support in 2 Corinthians 3:1, where συ...
_SEEKING TO BE APPROVED OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:15-18:_ Paul did not brag about the work others had done in the kingdom. He did not try to take credit for their work. His desire was that these brethre...
ΣΥΝΙΣΤΆΝΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΣΥΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G4921) рекомендовать (_см._ 2 Corinthians 10:12). ΔΌΚΙΜΟΣ (G1384) одобренный, одобренный после проверки (TLNT)....
DISCOURSE: 2039 THE FOLLY OF PRIDE AND BOASTING 2 Corinthians 10:18. _Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth_. ONE would be ready to suppose, that the more any perso...
BUT WHOM THE LORD COMMENDETH.— Particularly by the gifts of the Holy Ghost. It is of these weapons of his warfare that St. Paul speaks in this chapter; and it is by them that he intends to try which i...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God app...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18) 12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one an...
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. IS APPROVED - stands the test of the final trial [ Dokimos (G1384)]: a metaphor from testing metals (Romans 16:10;...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinthi...
PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...
NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF] Contrast between himself and his accusers is implied. The true test is the success of the work, not the self-advertisement of the workers....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
FOR NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF IS APPROVED. — Again, as in 2 Corinthians 10:12 and five earlier passages (see reference there), we trace the impression which the stinging taunt had left on St. Pau...
CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος ε...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak a...
Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
REFLECTIONS Lamb of God! be it my mercy to learn of thee, for thou art meek, and lowly in heart. Thou knowest, Lord! and blessed be thy Name, since thou wert pleased to call me by thy grace, that tho...
(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
_For not he that commendeth himself is approved _“For it is easy to impose upon men by a false impression, and this is matter of every day occurrence. Let us, therefore, leaving off all other things,...
The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...
FOR NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF IS APPROVED,.... Such may be said to commend themselves, who ascribe that to themselves, which do not belong to them; as that they are the ministers of Christ, and s...
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Ver. 18. _Whom the Lord commendeth_] As he did his servant Job, 2 Corinthians 1:8. And as he did his handmaid Sarah, for...
_But he that glorieth_ Whether it be of planting or watering the churches; _let him glory in the Lord_ Not in himself, but in the power, love, and faithfulness of the Lord, who only can render any man...
NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF; man is not his own judge, but the Lord; and by His decision every one must stand or fall. As men are to stand or fall, not by their own judgment or that of their fellow...
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
FOR NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF IS APPROVED, BUT WHOM THE LORD COMMENDETH. The outstanding feature of Paul's ministry was that, unlike his arrogant opponents, he had confined himself to the work wi...
Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his...
Solomon saith, PROVERBS 27:2: _Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips._ Self-commendation is an ungrateful sound to ingenuous ears; no man thinks anot...
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. [The self-commendation of a man rests on no higher evidence than the testimony of his own lips, but the commendation of Go...
2 Corinthians 10:18 For G1063 not G3756 he G1565 commends G4921 (G5723) himself G1438 is G2076 (G5748
‘For it is not he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.' Because the value of a commendation lies in who makes it. Those who are, or should be, approved are those whom the...
2 Corinthians 10:18. FOR NOT HE THAT COMMENDETH HIMSELF IS APPROVED, BUT HE WHOM THE LORD COMMENDETH. This addition is intended for the opponents he has had in view throughout all this chapter. No won...
IS APPROVED (δοκιμος). Accepted (from δεχομα) by the Lord. The Lord accepts his own recommendation (συνιστησιν, see on 2 Corinthians 3:1)....
CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own inf...
2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...
BECAUSE. The real proof of being approved, is that the Lord thinks well of you. The false apostle had failed the test by not following God's instructions on the mission field!...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his ministry...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:17 Paul supports his boasting as an apostle (vv. 2 Corinthians 10:12) by citing...
_For not he that commendeth himself is approved._ How is it, then, that Saints have sometimes commended themselves, as, _e.g_., Hezekiah, in Isaiah 38:3, and S. Paul in the next chapter, and in 2 Timo...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him o...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 1:7; 2 Corinthians 10:12;...
Three things are here observable, 1. The proneness which is in human nature to admire, applaud and commend itself. Man is. proud piece of flesh, and. little apprehended excellency in himself presently...