2 Corinthians 11:1-4
THE TRUE APOSTLE AND THE FALSE TEACHERS. 2 Corinthians 11:1 Paul censures the spirit which gives ear to false teaching:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRUE APOSTLE AND THE FALSE TEACHERS. 2 Corinthians 11:1 Paul censures the spirit which gives ear to false teaching:... [ Continue Reading ]
WOULD TO GOD YE COULD BEAR WITH ME A LITTLE IN MY FOLLY; AND INDEED BEAR WITH ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU WITH GODLY JEALOUSY; FOR I HAVE ESPOUSED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND, THAT I MAY PRESENT YOU AS A CHASTE VIRGIN TO CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I FEAR LEST BY ANY MEANS, AS THE SERPENT BEGUILED EVE THROUGH HIS SUBTLETY, SO YOUR MINDS SHOULD BE CORRUPTED FROM THE SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF HE THAT COMETH PREACHETH ANOTHER JESUS, WHOM WE HAVE NOT PREACHED, OR IF YE RECEIVE ANOTHER SPIRIT, WHICH YE HAVE NOT RECEIVED, OR ANOTHER GOSPEL, WHICH YE HAVE NOT ACCEPTED, YE MIGHT WELL BEAR WITH HIM. The apostle had condemned the false boasting of the opponents that had come to Corinth an... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I SUPPOSE I WAS NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul is not inferior to the "great apostles":... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOUGH I BE RUDE IN SPEECH, YET NOT IN KNOWLEDGE; BUT WE HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY MADE MANIFEST AMONG YOU IN ALL THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE I COMMITTED AN OFFENSE IN ABASING MYSELF THAT YE MIGHT BE EXALTED, BECAUSE I HAVE PREACHED TO YOU THE GOSPEL OF GOD FREELY?... [ Continue Reading ]
I ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES, TAKING WAGES OF THEM, TO DO YOU SERVICE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN I WAS PRESENT WITH YOU AND WANTED, I WAS CHARGEABLE TO NO MAN; FOR THAT WHICH WAS LACKING TO ME THE BRETHREN WHICH CAME FROM MACEDONIA SUPPLIED; AND IN ALL THINGS I HAVE KEPT MYSELF FROM BEING BURDEN SO ME UNTO YOU, AND SO WILL I KEEP MYSELF. The apostle here proceeds to take up the reason... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE TRUTH OF CHRIST IS IN ME, NO MAN SHALL STOP ME OF THIS BOASTING IN THE REGIONS OF ACHAIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU NOT? GOD KNOWETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHAT I DO, THAT I WILL DO THAT I MAY CUT OFF OCCASION FROM THEM WHICH DESIRE OCCASION, THAT, WHEREIN THEY GLORY, THEY MAY BE FOUND EVEN AS WE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES, DECEITFUL WORKERS, TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES INTO THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NO MARVEL; FOR SATAN HIMSELF IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE IT IS NO GREAT THING IF HIS MINISTERS ALSO BE TRANSFORMED AS THE MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; WHOSE END SHALL BE ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. It was no mere caprice of an erratic genius that caused Paul to act thus in the case of Corinth, as he now brings out. First of all, he states, with the... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S BOAST OF HIS APOSTOLIC CALLING. Paul deprecates the necessity of boasting:... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAY AGAIN, LET NO MAN THINK ME A FOOL; IF OTHERWISE, YET AS A FOOL RECEIVE ME THAT I MAY BOAST MYSELF A LITTLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WHICH I SPEAK; I SPEAK IT NOT AFTER THE LORD, BUT, AS IT WERE, FOOLISHLY, IN THIS CONFIDENCE OF BOASTING.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEING THAT MANY GLORY AFTER THE FLESH, I WILL GLORY ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY, SEEING YE YOURSELVES ARE WISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE SUFFER, IF A MAN BRING YOU INTO BONDAGE, IF A MAN DEVOUR YOU, IF A MAN TAKE OF YOU, IF A MAN EXALT HIMSELF, IF A MAN SMITE YOU ON THE FACE. The apostle has now sufficiently characterized the nature of the false teachers and rejected their claims to consideration. He now, by way of contrast, r... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPEAK AS CONCERNING REPROACH, AS THOUGH WE HAD BEEN WEAK. HOWBEIT, WHEREINSOEVER ANY IS BOLD, (I SPEAK FOOLISHLY,) I AM BOLD ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle's commendation of himself:... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE THEY HEBREWS? SO AM I. ARE THEY ISRAELITES? SO AM I. ARE THEY THE SEED OF ABRAHAM? SO AM I.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE THEY MINISTERS OF CHRIST? (I SPEAK AS A FOOL) I AM MORE; IN LABORS MORE ABUNDANT, IN STRIPES ABOVE MEASURE, IN PRISONS MORE FREQUENT, IN DEATHS OFT.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THRICE WAS I BEATEN WITH RODS, ONCE WAS I STONED, THRICE I SUFFERED SHIPWRECK, A NIGHT AND A DAY I HAVE BEEN IN THE DEEP;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN, IN PERILS OF WATERS, IN PERILS OF ROBBERS, IN PERILS BY MINE OWN COUNTRYMEN, IN PERILS BY THE HEATHEN, IN PERILS IN THE CITY, IN PERILS IN THE WILDERNESS, IN PERILS IN THE SEA, IN PERILS AMONG FALSE BRETHREN;... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS, IN WATCHINGS OFTEN, IN HUNGER AND THIRST, IN FASTINGS OFTEN, IN COLD AND NAKEDNESS;... [ Continue Reading ]
BESIDE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE WITHOUT, THAT WHICH COMETH UPON ME DAILY, THE CARE OF ALL THE CHURCHES. Powerful irony and forceful reproach are contained in the first words of this section; for he truly must seem weak to the Corinthians in comparison with such spiritual bosses: To the disgrace (of yo... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IS WEAK, AND I AM NOT WEAK? WHO IS OFFENDED, AND I BURN NOT?... [ Continue Reading ]
A further recital of hardships and difficulties:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY, I WILL GLORY OF THE THINGS WHICH CONCERN MINE INFIRMITIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH IS BLESSED FOREVERMORE, KNOWETH THAT I LIE NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN DAMASCUS, THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS, THE KING, KEPT THE CITY OF THE DAMASCENES WITH A GARRISON, DESIROUS TO APPREHEND ME;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET WAS I LET DOWN BY THE WALL, AND ESCAPED HIS HANDS. The first rhetorical questions contain a further explanation of the fact that Paul was burdened with the details of business concerning many congregations. If any important question of faith or of Christian life was... [ Continue Reading ]