I trust. "When you put yourself to the test of faith, you will discover that what we have been telling you is true! The weakness you despise is really proof that Christ is in us!" [Reprobate means one who has failed the test.]
Verse 2 Corinthians 13:6. _YE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT REPROBATES._] Ye have had, and ye shall have, the fullest proof that I have preached the true faith among you; and that God has confirmed it by...
BUT I TRUST ... - The sense of this verse is,” Whatever may be the result of your examination of yourselves, I trust (Greek I hope) you will not find us false and to be rejected; that is, I trust you...
4. STILL ABSENT - YET COMING. THE CONCLUSION. CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Being Absent; Expecting to Come. (2 Corinthians 13:1 .)_ 2. The Conclusion. (2 Corinthians 13:11 .) He speaks in conclusion of his comi...
WARNINGS IN VIEW OF A VISIT. This closing chapter starts from a vivid realisation of that which is only too likely to be the situation when he arrives for the third time. With increased emphasis, and...
A WARNING, A WISH, A HOPE AND A BLESSING (2 Corinthians 13:1-14) 13 For the third time I am coming to you. Everything will be established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. To those who have alr...
TRUST. hope. KNOW. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132....
_But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates_ i.e. I trust that you will find that we have not lost this Divine power of Christ dwelling within us, but that you will find it as mighty to...
ἘΛΠΊΖΩ ΔῈ ὍΤΙ ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ. _But I_ HOPE _that ye_ WILL COME TO _know that we are not_ REPROBATE. ‘I trust that your testing of yourselves will show you what we are’; _si estis in fide, ex vobis nos cogno...
5–9. ‘Instead of seeking a proof of the Christ that speaketh in me (2 Corinthians 13:3), it is your own selves that you ought to be testing and proving, to see whether you are in the faith and Christ...
1–10. The letter hastens to a conclusion. He reminds them, 1. what they have to expect from him in this third visit (1–4); 2. what they owe to themselves, seeing that their estimate of him and his tre...
_ARE YOU TRUE TO YOUR FAITH 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5-7:_ Each Christian should test himself to make sure that he is really true to the faith. We need to know whether we can pass this test. As you examine yo...
ΕΛΠΊΖΩ (G1679) _praes. ind. act._ надеяться. ΓΝΏΣΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) признавать....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Maturation Through Self-Examination (2 Corinthians 13:5-10) 5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that J...
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. WE ARE NOT REPROBATES - not unable to abide the "proof." "I trust that" your own Christianity will be known by you on your proving it ("ye...
14 What a fund of fatherly affection is revealed in his protest, "I am not seeking _ yours _ but _ you_!" And it must have humbled them to think of their own lack of care and consideration. They deser...
The Apostle announces a third visit, and exhorts them to repentance. He expresses his desire for their growth in grace. PARAPHRASE. '(1) This is the third visit I am about to pay you. On this occasion...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 V1 This will be my third visit to you. If you accuse anyone, two or three witnesses must speak in evidence. V2 I said...
BUT I TRUST... — Better, _But I hope_... The “we” that follows is emphatic: “whether _you_ fail to pass the test or not, I have a good hope that you will know that _we_ do not fail, whether the test b...
CHAPTER 28 CONCLUSION. 2 Corinthians 13:1 (R.V) THE first part of this chapter is in close connection with what precedes; it is, so to speak, the explanation of St. Paul's fear 2 Corinthians 12:20 t...
2 Corinthians 13:1-10. IF HE COMES AGAIN, HE WILL NOT SPARE: CHRIST IS HIS STRENGTH: LET THE CORINTHIANS SEE TO IT THAT HE BE THEIRS ALSO....
ἐλπίζω δὲ κ. τ. λ.: _but_, however it may be with you, _I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate_, that _we_ can confidently submit to any testing of our apostolic authority....
“PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES” 2 Corinthians 13:1 Once more Paul refers to the charge that his ministry was characterized by weakness. This deeply wounded him. He admitted that in his personal appearance an...
In view of his intention to visit them again the apostle urged them to personal examination. They were to test themselves, and to prove themselves whether they were in the faith. The reason for his ap...
VERSE 6 Paul hoped they knew that he would not fail the test....
(3) But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. (3) He appeases that sharpness, trusting that they will show themselves towards their faithful apostle, able and willing to be taught. A...
I trust that we have not fallen from the state in which we were, but that we continue to exercise our ministry and to use the power which he has given us. Though I do not wish to find you guilty of an...
(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (6) But I trust that ye shall know tha...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
6._I hope that you shall know _He presses them still more urgently, while indulging this confident persuasion — that he will not be rejected by the Corinthians. One of two things was necessary — that...
_ Commentary for this Chapter is probably included in the next or previous Chapter s._...
BUT I TRUST THAT YE SHALL KNOW,.... Whether they were reprobates or not, the apostle would not pretend to say; that he left to themselves, and of which they were capable of making judgment for themsel...
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Ver. 6. _But I trust that ye shall know_] Whereas they were ready to retort that they were no reprobates, he should well know, let him see t...
_Examine yourselves_, &c. You examine and try me, but let me admonish you to turn the search into your own hearts, that ye may know, with certainty, _whether ye be in the faith_ Whether ye possess tru...
NOT REPROBATES; not deceivers, nor deceived, but what we profess to be, Christians and inspired apostles, armed by our Master with divine power....
BUT I TRUST THAT YE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT REPROBATES....
Paul appeals to his readers to stand approved of Christ:...
It is essential that Paul should repeat that this was the third time he was coming to them. Such emphasis was needed to awaken proper exercise. For the second time he had not come, in order to spare t...
1-6 Though it is God's gracious method to bear long with sinners, yet he will not bear always; at length he will come, and will not spare those who remain obstinate and impenitent. Christ at his cruc...
You make a doubt whether Christ be in us, and you would fain know how it may be evidenced that he is so. If Christ be not in us we must be reprobates. BUT I TRUST THAT YE SHALL KNOW, either in this li...
But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate. [Ye who are so eager to put me to the test as to whether I am united with Christ, would exercise a truer wisdom if you tested your own selves t...
2 Corinthians 13:6 But G1161 trust G1679 (G5719) that G3754 know G1097 (G5695) that G3754 we G2249 are...
‘But I hope that you will know that we are not reprobate (failing the test).' And his hope is that as they do this they will come to recognise that Paul and his fellow-workers are not reprobate, not...
2 Corinthians 13:6. BUT I HOPE THAT YE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT REPROBATE that whether in making known the Gospel or in the exercise of faithful discipline we, at least, are straightforward and true...
THAT YE SHALL KNOW (οτ επιγνωσεσθε). Such a testing of themselves will give them full knowledge that Paul is notREPROBATE (αδοκιμος). The best way for vacillating Christians to stop it is to draw...
CONTENTS: Closing exhortations of Paul to the Corinthians. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The great burden of God's faithful representatives is that the Gospel they preach m...
2 Corinthians 13:1. _This is the third time I am coming to you._ Compare the following texts. Acts 18:1; Acts 20:2; Acts 21:13. The difficulty here is re
CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. There were some at Corinth who had abandoned themselves to impurity, others who were proud and contentious (xi. 20, 21), others given to other sins, and dispose...
_But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates._ Not rejected by Christ, and deprived of His grace, and so mean and inglorious. You see indeed the opposite: you see Christ working powerful...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 13:1.—[Good paraphrase, exhibiting connection of thought, from Stanley: “Once, twice, thrice, as in the Mosaic Law of the three witnesses; by my first visit—by this Epis...
CONCLUDING APPEALS AND EXHORTATIONS, EXPOSITION 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1 THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I AM COMING TO YOU. I have thrice formed the intention, though the second time I had to forego my plan ...
Now he said, This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. [For] I told you before, and foretell you [I'm telling you again], as if...
2 Corinthians 12:20; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 13:3; 2 Corinthians 13:4...
And I trust ye shall know — By proving yourselves, not by putting my authority to the proof....
As if the apostle had said, "Whatever you, upon examination, shall be found to be,. trust you shall know, and be convinced, that we have not dishonoured Christ, nor shall be disowned of him: But whene...