2 Corinthians 2:1-4
PAUL'S APOSTOLIC KINDNESS. Paul continues his explanation:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S APOSTOLIC KINDNESS. Paul continues his explanation:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I DETERMINED THIS WITH MYSELF, THAT I WOULD NOT COME AGAIN TO YOU IN HEAVINESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF I MAKE YOU SORRY, WHO IS HE, THEN, THAT MAKETH ME GLAD BUT THE SAME WHICH IS MADE SORRY BY ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WROTE THIS SAME UNTO YOU, 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 GRIEVED, BUT THAT YE MIGHT KNOW THE LOVE WHICH I HAVE MORE ABUNDANTLY UNTO YOU. Paul had declared that he had reconsidered his intention of visiting them first and changed his plan about coming in... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF ANY HAVE CAUSED GRIEF, HE HATH NOT GRIEVED ME, BUT IN PART, THAT I MAY NOT OVERCHARGE YOU ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
The case of the notorious sinner:... [ Continue Reading ]
SUFFICIENT TO SUCH A MAN IS THIS PUNISHMENT, WHICH WAS INFLICTED OF MANY,... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT CONTRARIWISE YE OUGHT RATHER TO FORGIVE HIM AND COMFORT HIM, LEST PERHAPS SUCH A ONE SHOULD BE SWALLOWED UP WITH OVERMUCH SORROW.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE I BESEECH YOU THAT YE WOULD 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 BE OBEDIENT IN ALL THINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WHOM YE FORGIVE ANYTHING, I FORGIVE ALSO; FOR IF I FORGAVE ANYTHING, TO WHOM I FORGAVE IT, FOR YOUR SAKES FORGAVE I IT IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST,... [ Continue Reading ]
LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE OF US; FOR WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF HIS DEVICES. This paragraph is a model of loving, pastoral tact and delicacy. There can be but little doubt that Paul is referring to the incestuous person concerning whom he wrote so sharply in the first epistle, chap. 5:1-5. And... [ Continue Reading ]
FURTHERMORE, WHEN I CAME TO TROAS TO PREACH CHRIST'S GOSPEL, AND A DOOR WAS OPENED UNTO ME OF THE LORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S TRIUMPH IN CHRIST. 2 Corinthians 2:12... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAD NO REST IN MY SPIRIT BECAUSE I FOUND NOT TITUS, MY BROTHER; BUT TAKING MY LEAVE OF THEM, I WENT FROM THENCE INTO MACEDONIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THANKS BE UNTO GOD, WHICH ALWAYS CAUSETH US TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, AND MAKETH MANIFEST THE SAVOR OF HIS KNOWLEDGE BY US IN EVERY PLACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE ARE UNTO GOD A SWEET SAVOR OF CHRIST, IN THEM THAT ARE SAVED, AND IN THEM THAT PERISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE ONE WE ARE THE SAVOR OF DEATH UNTO DEATH, AND TO THE OTHER THE SAVOR OF LIFE UNTO LIFE. AND WHO IS SUFFICIENT FOR THESE THINGS?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE ARE NOT AS MANY, WHICH CORRUPT THE WORD OF GOD; BUT AS OF SINCERITY, BUT AS OF GOD, IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, SPEAK WE IN CHRIST. Paul here returns to the description of his own spiritual condition at the time when he wrote the first epistle, and when he started upon his journey to Macedonia. He h... [ Continue Reading ]