I speak not this to condemn you; what he has just said, 2 Corinthians 7:2, might seem to the Corinthians to be uttered in a spirit of censure. He wishes them to understand that he cannot speak to them except from the impulse of love.
Said before; chap 2 Corinthians 6:11-12.
To die, and live with you; such is his affection for them, that he would gladly be joined with them in life and death.
Verse 2 Corinthians 7:3. _I SPEAK NOT_ THIS _TO CONDEMN YOU_] I do not speak to reproach but to correct you. I wish you to open your eyes and see how you are corrupted, spoiled, and impoverished by th...
I SPEAK NOT THIS TO CONDEMN YOU - I do not speak this with any desire to reproach you. I do not complain of you for the purpose of condemning, or because I have a desire to find fault, though I am com...
8. THE APOSTLE'S EXHORTATIONS AND REJOICINGS. CHAPTER 6:14-7 _ 1. His Exhortations. (2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1 .)_ 2. His Rejoicing and Confidence. (2 Corinthians 7:2
2 Corinthians 7:2. With 2 Corinthians 7:2 Paul returns to the thought of 2 Corinthians 6:13. Make wide your hearts.. Make room in them for us. The sentences which follow are full of changing emotion,...
We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have taken advantage of no one. I am not speaking with any intention of condemnation. I have already told you that you are in our hearts, so that I...
GET YOU OUT (2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1) 7:1 Do not allow yourselves to become joined in an alien yoke with unbelievers. What partnership can there be between righteousness and lawless...
NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. TO CONDEMN _ YOU_= for (Greek. pros. App-104.) CONDEMNATION. Greek. _katakrisis._ See 2 Corinthians 3:9. TO DIE, &c. Literally unto (Greek. _eis)_ the dying, &c. DIE. die...
Exhortation to set aside all suspicion and to confide in the Apostle's love and zeal for their spiritual well-being 2. _Receive us_ Literally, MAKE ROOM FOR US (-capaces estote nostri," Erasmus and C...
_I speak not this to condemn you_ "It might seem as if this were spoken _at_them with indirect reproach. Therefore he adds, -I am not reproaching you for past injustice: I only say these things to ass...
2–4. Return to the appeal for reconciliation, which in turn brings him back to the subject of the news brought by Titus, of which he began to tell in 2 Corinthians 2:12, but from which he almost at on...
ΠΡῸΣ ΚΑΤΆΚΡΙΣΙΝ ΟΥ̓ (אBCP) rather than οὐ πρὸς κ. (DFGKL). 3. ΠΡῸΣ ΚΑΤΆΚΡΙΣΙΝ ΟΥ̓ ΛΈΓΩ. I AM NOT SAYING _this to condemn you_. Comp. πρὸς ἐντροπὴν ὑμῖν λέγω (1 Corinthians 6:5). ‘It is not for condem...
_PERFECT HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 7:1-3:_ Since God has given us His great promises we should stay away from everything that contaminates and defiles either our body or our spirit. Pe...
ΚΑΤΆΚΡΙΣΙΣ (G2633) осуждение, принятие решения против кого-л. ΠΡΟΕΊΡΗΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΛΈΓΩ (G4302) предстоять. Предл. сочетание имеет временное значение. ΕΙΣ (G1519) с артикулированным _in...
DISCOURSE: 2030 THE GROUNDS OF A MINISTER’S REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE 2 Corinthians 7:3. _Ye are in our hearts to die and live with you_. THERE is in every man a quick sensibility with respect to any thi...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Augmentation (2 Corinthians 7:2-9) 2 Open your hearts to us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3I do not say this to...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Appeal for Purity Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 7:1-3. Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holines...
I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you. In vindicating myself, I do not accuse you, as though you suspected me of such things (M...
17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit the occasion. 2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
PARAPHRASE. 'Give us your affection; we have done no man any injury either in influence or in character or in pocket. (3) I am not returning to this subject to blame you again, for whether I live or d...
_(E) 7:2-16. THE APOSTLE'S JOY IN THE CORINTHIANS' REPENTANCE_ St. Paul goes on to ask them to give him their affection, and renews his assurance of purity of deed and motive. He tells them of the sus...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 7 V2 Be sincere with us. We have not done wrong things to anyone. We have not made anyone behave wrongly. We have not che...
I SPEAK NOT THIS TO CONDEMN YOU. — Better, _I do not speak as condemning._ There is no “you” in the Greek, and the form of expression seems intentionally vague, as leaving it an open question whether...
CHAPTER 19 REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. 2 Corinthians 7:2 (R.V) IN this fine passage St. Paul completes, as far as it lay upon his side to do so, his reconciliation with the Corinthians. It concludes the f...
HE CLAIMS THEIR SYMPATHY AGAIN. He now resumes the appeal which is interrupted at 2 Corinthians 6:13 by the parenthetical warning 2 Corinthians 6:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:1....
πρὸς κατάρ. κ. τ. λ.: _I do not say this by way of condemnation_ (_i.e._, do not think that I accuse _you_ of mistrusting me); _for I have said before_ (_viz._, in 2 Corinthians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 6:1...
SEPARATE FROM ALL UNCLEANNESS 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and love, was so...
The section culminates in an appeal full of local coloring and suggestion. In a great cry he gave expression to the hunger of his heart when he wrote, "Make room for us" (see margin). He then declared...
VERSE 3 He did now say these things to condemn them as if they were ungrateful or falsely accusing him. As he had told them before, he would have like to live and die with them....
I speak not [this] to (c) condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with [you]. (c) To condemn you of unkindness or treachery....
_I speak not this to your condemnation; he means not to condemn them in general, though some had been blameable. --- Great is my glorying. I have great joy in the greatest part of you. (Witham)_...
(2) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. (3) I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with...
3._I say not this to condemn you. _As the foregoing apology was a sort of expostulation, and we can scarcely avoid reproaching when we expostulate, he softens on this account what he had said. “I clea...
The apostle returns to his own relationships with the Corinthians relations formed by the word of his ministry. And now having laid open what this ministry really was, he seeks to prevent the bonds be...
I SPEAK NOT THIS TO CONDEMN YOU,.... Referring either to the exhortations before given, to have no sinful conversation with unbelievers, and to cleanse themselves from all impurity, external and inter...
I speak not _this_ to condemn _you_ : for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with _you_. Ver. 3. _I speak not this, &c._] Though cause enough he had to condemn them for the...
_Receive us_ With that affection which is due to the faithful servants of Christ, and to those who have been instruments in your conversion and edification; for, whatever may have been insinuated by i...
I SPEAK NOT THIS TO CONDEMN YOU; FOR I HAVE SAID BEFORE THAT YE ARE IN OUR HEARTS TO DIE AND LIVE WITH YOU....
PAUL'S CONSOLATION AND JOY BECAUSE OF THE CORINTHIANS. A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:...
Verse 1 is plainly connected with chapter 6. Because the saints of God have these promises, and because they are dearly beloved, they are exhorted to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the fles...
1-4 The promises of God are strong reasons for us to follow after holiness; we must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. If we hope in God as our Father, we must seek to be holy...
The apostle deals very tenderly with this church, which was (as he knew very well) full of many touchy members; who upon all occasions were ready to reflect upon him, and to take occasion from any exp...
I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together. [I do not say these things as though I would complain of you that you are so ungratefu...
2 Corinthians 7:3 not G3756 say G3004 (G5719) to G4314 condemn G2633 for G1063 before G4280 (G5758) that...
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF TITUS AND PAUL'S FULL RECONCILIATION WITH THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH (2 CORINTHIANS 7:1) Having searchingly examined their credentials by portraying to them the essence of the new...
2 Corinthians 7:3. [1] I SAY IT NOT TO CONDEMN YOU ‘I charge none of you with having said this of me; but since it has been insinuated in some quarters, I must repel it as a cruel wrong; against yours...
NOT TO CONDEMN YOU (προς κατακρισιν ου). "Not for condemnation." Late word from κατακρινω, found in Vettius Valens, and here only in N.T.TO DIE TOGETHER AND LIVE TOGETHER (εις το συναποθανειν κα...
CONTENTS: Paul opens his heart to the Corinthians concerning purpose of his former letter. CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Titus. CONCLUSION: The true servant of God cannot but be grieved that he must rebuke...
2 Corinthians 7:1. _Having therefore these promises._ Our good archbishop Langton is blamed by many critics for separating this verse from the preceding chapter. The great and precious promises of the...
I DO NOT SAY THIS. "I do not say this to condemn you for allowing yourselves to be misled by the false teachers, or to stir up past problems! As I said before, _we have opened wide our hearts to you_!...
_Receive us; we have wronged no man._ THE APOSTLE’S REQUEST I. The ground on which he urged it--viz., that he deserved it. 1. It was a simple matter of justice. “We have wronged no man,” etc. The ap...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 7:2 Paul resumes the exhortation from 2 Corinthians 6:11. The Corinthians are to side with Paul and reject the false teachers (see...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He declares his love, sincerity, and his confidence in the Corinthians. II. He declares (ver. 6) his joy at their repentance and amendment. III. He states (ver...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 7:1. THEREFORE.—This verse a branch broken from 2 Corinthians 6:16. This word is like the jagged fibres which tell of the violence, and point back to the parent stem. HA...
EXPOSITION Conclusion of his appeal (2 Corinthians 7:1). The apostle's feelings towards them (2 Corinthians 7:2). Explanation of the objects of his last letter, and expression of his joy at the good r...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to II Corinthians, chapter seven. The first verse of chapter seven immediately refers us back to chapter six. And so as we look at this, we realize that chapter seven m...
1 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 11:11;...
I speak not to condemn you — Not as if I accused you of laying this to my charge. I am so far from thinking so unkindly of you, that ye are in our hearts, to live and die with you — That is, I could r...