2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me? [But I call God, who knows all things, even the searcher of hearts, to look upon the secret purposes of my soul, and to confirm the truth if I speak it, and to testify against and punish me if I lie (Malachi... [ Continue Reading ]
And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.... [ Continue Reading ]
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. [I wrote this very thing to you (viz.: how my coming endangered your joy, and how you must repent before I came ... [ Continue Reading ]
But if any [thus delicately does the apostle introduce this sinner] _hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all_. [As I have said, I did not write to cause you sorrow. But if the incestuous person has caused you sorrow, he has caused s... [ Continue Reading ]
Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;... [ Continue Reading ]
So that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow. [Paul's purpose had been to save this sinner (1 Corinthians 5:5). It seems that a minority had espoused his cause, but the majority had excommunicated him... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.... [ Continue Reading ]
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. [This shows that Paul had made his instructions concerning the incestuous man a test. If they obeyed him, in this, he could come to them bringing joy: if they disobeyed, their condition would... [ Continue Reading ]
But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the presence of Christ;... [ Continue Reading ]
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. [There is a close correlation between verse 10 and 1 Corinthians 5:3. There Paul identified himself with the church, and, though absent, anticipated its action and acted with it. Here he ratifies beforehand the... [ Continue Reading ]
Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ [i. e., intending to preach], _and when a door_ [an opportunity-- 1 Corinthians 16:9 and note] _was opened unto me in the Lord_,... [ Continue Reading ]
I had no relief for my spirit [worrying about you], _because I found not Titus my brother_ [who had agreed to bring me word about you, and meet me at Troas]: _but taking my leave of them_ [the brethren at Troas], _I went forth into Macedonia_. [hoping to meet Titus there. For fuller details of Paul'... [ Continue Reading ]
But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.... [ Continue Reading ]
For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;... [ Continue Reading ]
to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?... [ Continue Reading ]
For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ. [But thanks be unto God for the relief which we received in Macedonia. And God's readings are ever thus. He leads us as a bound, anxious, trembling captive in his triu... [ Continue Reading ]