What does 2 Corinthians 7:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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."
Verse 2 Corinthians 7:4. _GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH_] He seems to refer to the manner in which he spoke of them to others. _GREAT_ IS _MY GLORYING OF YOU_] They had probably been very loving and...
GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARD YOU - This verse seems designed to soften the apparent harshness of what he had said 2 Corinthians 6:12, when he intimated that there was a lack of love in them t...
8. THE APOSTLE'S EXHORTATIONS AND REJOICINGS. CHAPTER 6:14-7 _ 1. His Exhortations. (2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1 .)_ 2. His Rejoicing and Confidence. (2 Corinthians 7:2 .) The first exhor...
2 Corinthians 7:2. With 2 Corinthians 7:2 Paul returns to the thought of 2 Corinthians 6:13. Make wide your hearts.. Make room in them for us. The sentences which follow are full of changing emotion,...
GET YOU OUT (2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1) 7:1 Do not allow yourselves to become joined in an alien yoke with unbelievers. What partnership can there be between righteousness and lawless...
BOLDNESS OF SPEECH. Greek. _parrhesia._ See 2 Corinthians 3:12. TOWARD. Greek. _pros._ App-104. GLORYING. Greek. _kaucheaia._ See Romans 3:22. OF. on behalf of. Greek. _huper._ App-104. FILLED. Gr...
Exhortation to set aside all suspicion and to confide in the Apostle's love and zeal for their spiritual well-being 2. _Receive us_ Literally, MAKE ROOM FOR US (-capaces estote nostri," Erasmus and C...
2–4. Return to the appeal for reconciliation, which in turn brings him back to the subject of the news brought by Titus, of which he began to tell in 2 Corinthians 2:12, but from which he almost at on...
ΠΑΡΡΗΣΊΑ (G3954) свобода слова, откровенность, смелость (_см._ 2 Corinthians 3:12). ΚΑΎΧΗΣΙΣ (G2746) похвальба, ΠΕΠΛΉΡΩΜΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) наполнять; _pass._ быть наполненным. _...
BOLDNESS OF SPEECH— _Freedom of speech._ Doddridge. The word rendered _exceeding joyful,_ υπερπερισσευομαι, is very expressive, and seems to be a word of the Apostle's own making....
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Augmentation (2 Corinthians 7:2-9) 2 Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3I do not say this to...
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. BOLDNESS OF SPEECH - arising from love. But Olshause...
17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit the occasion. 2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
_(E) 7:2-16. THE APOSTLE'S JOY IN THE CORINTHIANS' REPENTANCE_ St. Paul goes on to ask them to give him their affection, and renews his assurance of purity of deed and motive. He tells them of the su...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 7 V2 Be sincere with us. We have not done wrong things to anyone. We have not made anyone behave wrongly. We have not chea...
GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH. — The context shows that he is not apologising for bold and plain speaking, but uses the word as implying confidence (1 Timothy 3:13; Philemon 1:8). He can speak withou...
CHAPTER 19 REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. 2 Corinthians 7:2 (R.V) IN this fine passage St. Paul completes, as far as it lay upon his side to do so, his reconciliation with the Corinthians. It concludes the f...
HE CLAIMS THEIR SYMPATHY AGAIN. He now resumes the appeal which is interrupted at 2 Corinthians 6:13 by the parenthetical warning 2 Corinthians 6:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:1....
SEPARATE FROM ALL UNCLEANNESS 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and love, was s...
The section culminates in an appeal full of local coloring and suggestion. In a great cry he gave expression to the hunger of his heart when he wrote, "Make room for us" (see margin). He then declared...
VERSE 4 Paul's love for them was so great that it allowed him to speak openly with them about problems. He also told others of their good deeds and was glad to suffer in their behalf....
(2) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. (3) I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with...
_JOY IN TRIBULATION_ ‘I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.’ 2 Corinthians 7:4 The circumstances which gave the Apostle comfort and filled him with exceeding joy i...
4._Great is my boldness. _Now, as if he had obtained the enlargement of heart that he had desired on the part of the Corinthians, he leaves off complaining, and pours out his heart with cheerfulness....
The apostle returns to his own relationships with the Corinthians relations formed by the word of his ministry. And now having laid open what this ministry really was, he seeks to prevent the bonds be...
GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARDS YOU,.... Or "liberty of speaking", which I use with you; I very freely, and without any disguise, open my mind to you; I faithfully tell you your faults; I am fr...
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. Ver. 4. _I am exceeding joyful_] Gr. υπερπερισσενομ...
_Receive us_ With that affection which is due to the faithful servants of Christ, and to those who have been instruments in your conversion and edification; for, whatever may have been insinuated by i...
MY GLORYING OF YOU; on account of their ready compliance with his directions....
PAUL'S CONSOLATION AND JOY BECAUSE OF THE CORINTHIANS. A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:...
Verse 1 is plainly connected with chapter 6. Because the saints of God have these promises, and because they are dearly beloved, they are exhorted to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the fles...
1-4 The promises of God are strong reasons for us to follow after holiness; we must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. If we hope in God as our Father, we must seek to be holy...
GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARD YOU; because I so dearly love you, therefore I speak so boldly and freely to you (as men use to speak most freely to those whom they most love). GREAT IS MY GLORY...
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction. [This verse tells of Paul's restored confidence in...
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna Let the earth also cause compassion to spring up to its inhabitants; for I am filled with comfort; I am exceeding joyful since I have seen Thee, the Savio...
2 Corinthians 7:4 Great G4183 my G3427 speech G3954 toward G4314 you G5209 great G4183 my G3427 boasting G2746 your G5216 behalf G5228 filled G4137 (G5769) comfort G3874 exceedingly G5248 (G5731) joyf...
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF TITUS AND PAUL'S FULL RECONCILIATION WITH THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH (2 CORINTHIANS 7:1) Having searchingly examined their credentials by portraying to them the essence of the new...
2 Corinthians 7:4. GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARD YOU, GREAT IS MY GLORYING ON YOUR BEHALF: I AM FILLED WITH COMFORT, I OVERFLOW WITH JOY IN ALL OUR TRIBULATIONS. Now follows the cause of this...
I OVERFLOW WITH JOY IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION (υπερπερισσευομα τη χαρα επ παση τη θλιψε ημων). A thoroughly Pauline sentiment. Περισσευω means to overflow, as we have seen. Hυπερ-περισσευω (late word,...
CONTENTS: Paul opens his heart to the Corinthians concerning purpose of his former letter. CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: The true servant of God cannot but be grieved that he must rebuke...
2 Corinthians 7:1. _Having therefore these promises._ Our good archbishop Langton is blamed by many critics for separating this verse from the preceding chapter. The great and precious promises of the...
SO SURE OF YOU! The news from Titus has made him jubilant!!! See 2 Corinthians 7:6....
_Receive us; we have wronged no man._ THE APOSTLE’S REQUEST I. The ground on which he urged it--viz., that he deserved it. 1. It was a simple matter of justice. “We have wronged no man,” etc. The a...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 7:2 Paul resumes the exhortation from 2 Corinthians 6:11. The Corinthians are to side with Paul and reject the false teachers (see 2 Corinthians 6:14). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var i...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He declares his love, sincerity, and his confidence in the Corinthians. II. He declares (ver. 6) his joy at their repentance and amendment. III. He states (ver...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 7:1. THEREFORE.—This verse a branch broken from 2 Corinthians 6:16. This word is like the jagged fibres which tell of the violence, and point back to the parent stem. HA...
EXPOSITION Conclusion of his appeal (2 Corinthians 7:1). The apostle's feelings towards them (2 Corinthians 7:2). Explanation of the objects of his last letter, and expression of his joy at the good...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to II Corinthians, chapter seven. The first verse of chapter seven immediately refers us back to chapter six. And so as we look at this, we realize that chapter seven m...
1 Corinthians 1:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:7; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 2 Corinthians 10:2;...
My boldness. Note the change for the first time to the first person singular. Comfort. The Greek has the comfort, the article apparently pointing to the special comfort he had received through the co...
I am filled with comfort — Of this he treats, 2 Corinthians 7:6, &c.; of his joy, 2 Corinthians 7:7, &c.; of both, 2 Corinthians 7:13....