2 Corinthians 7:1

These promises; the promises of God referred to in the last chapter.

Filthiness of the flesh; excessive sensual indulgences.

And spirit; as pride, anger, malice, revenge, envy, covetousness. The promises of God to believers, instead of leading them to be careless in sin, excite them to the most earnest desires and strenuous efforts to be delivered from it. No hope is genuine, or will stand in the day of trial, but that which tends to purify the soul even as Christ is pure.