2 Corinthians 13:1
I am coming this third time — He had been coming twice before, though he did not actually come.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am coming this third time — He had been coming twice before, though he did not actually come.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the rest — Who have since then sinned in any of these kinds. I will not spare — I will severely punish them.... [ Continue Reading ]
He was crucified through weakness — Through the impotence of human nature. We also are weak with him — We appear weak and despicable by partaking of the same sufferings for his sake. But we shall live with him — Being raised from the dead. By the power of God in you — By that divine energy which is... [ Continue Reading ]
Prove yourselves — Whether ye are such as can, or such as cannot, bear the test — This is the proper meaning of the word which we translate, reprobates. Know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you — All Christian believers know this, by the witness and by the fruit of his Spirit. Some transl... [ Continue Reading ]
And I trust ye shall know — By proving yourselves, not by putting my authority to the proof.... [ Continue Reading ]
I pray God that ye may do no evil — To give me occasion of showing my apostolical power. I do not desire to appear approved — By miraculously punishing you. But that ye may do that which is good, though we should be as reprobates — Having no occasion to give that proof of our apostleship.... [ Continue Reading ]
For we can do nothing against the truth — Neither against that which is just and right, nor against those who walk according to the truth of the gospel.... [ Continue Reading ]
For we rejoice when we are weak — When we appear so, having no occasion to show our apostolic power. And this we wish, even your perfection — In the faith that worketh by love.... [ Continue Reading ]
Be perfect — Aspire to the highest degree of holiness. Be of good comfort — Filled with divine consolation. Be of one mind — Desire, labour, pray for it, to the utmost degree that is possible.... [ Continue Reading ]
The grace — Or favour. Of our Lord Jesus Christ — By which alone we can come to the Father. And the love of God — Manifested to you, and abiding in you. And the communion — Or fellowship. Of the Holy Ghost — In all his gifts and graces. It is with great reason that this comprehensive and instructiv... [ Continue Reading ]