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97801 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1085.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , 6:7 ); namely, pureness; and there is no piety without purity. A care to keep ourselves unspotted from the world is necessary in order to our acceptance with God …
97802 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.1 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:5-7:7 ), and how re rejoiced in their repentance, with the evidences thereof, 2 Corinthians 7:8-7:11. And, lastly, he concludes with endeavouring to …
97803 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.3 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:1. This exhortation is given with most tender affection to those who were dearly beloved, and enforced by strong arguments, even the consideration …
97804 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.4 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:3, 7:4. So tenderly and cautiously did the apostle deal with the Corinthians, among whom there were some who would be glad of any occasion to reproach …
97805 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.6 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:5. He was troubled when he did not meet with Titus at Troas, and afterwards when for some time he did not meet with him in Macedonia: this was a grief …
97806 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.7 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:6, 7:7. Here observe, 1. The very coming of Titus was some comfort to him. It was matter of joy to see him, whom he long desired and expected to meet with …
97807 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.8 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:8. But now he rejoiced, when he found they had sorrowed to repentance, 2 Corinthians 7:9. Their sorrow in itself was not the cause of his rejoicing …
97808 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:11 ); and those fruits that are meet for repentance are the best evidences of it. Where the heart is changed, the life and actions will be changed …
97809 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1086.11 (Matthew Henry)
… Corinthians 7:12. It was not chiefly for his cause that did the wrong, not only for his benefit, much less merely that he should be punished; nor was it merely for …
97810 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7-8:15 ), and commends the persons who were employed in this affair, 2 Corinthians 8:16-8:24 .
97811 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.7 (Matthew Henry)
In these verses the apostle uses several cogent arguments to stir up the Corinthians to this good work of charity.
97812 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7. Great address and much holy art are here used by the apostle. When he would persuade the Corinthians to this good thing, he commends them for other good things …
97813 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1087.10 (Matthew Henry)
… Samuel 7:1-7:29 .
97814 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1088.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7. Works of charity, like other good works, should be done with thought and design; whereas some do good only by accident. They comply, it may be hastily, with the …
97815 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1088.7 (Matthew Henry)
II. Good encouragement to perform this work of charity in the manner directed. Here the apostle tells the Corinthians,
97816 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1088.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7 ), and what may not those hope to receive who are the objects of the divine love? Can a man be a loser by doing that with which God is pleased? May not such a one be …
97817 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1089.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:7-10:11 ), and refuses to justify himself, or to act by such rules as the false teachers did, but according to the better rules he had fixed for himself, 2 Corinthians …
97818 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1089.7 (Matthew Henry)
2. The apostle’s power to punish offenders (and that in an extraordinary manner) is asserted in 2 Corinthians 10:6. The apostle was a prime-minister in the kingdom …
97819 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1089.8 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:7. Isa. this a fit measure or rule to make an estimate of things or persons by, and to judge between me and my adversaries?” In outward appearance, Paul was mean …
97820 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1089.9 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:7. It would seem by this that Paul’s adversaries boasted of their relation to Christ as his ministers and servants. Now the apostle reasons thus with the …