4I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We have here the apostle’s preface to his whole epistle, in which we may take notice, I. Of the inscription, in which, according to the custom of writing letters then, the name of the person by whom it was written and the persons to whom it was written are both inserted. 1. It is an epistle from Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, to the church of Corinth, which he himself had planted, though there…
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