18For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
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For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)In this passage the apostle gives, I. Some general advices; as, 1. That they should watch (1 Cor. 16:13), be wakeful and upon their guard. A Christian is always in danger, and therefore should ever be on the watch; but the danger is greater at some times and under some circumstances. The Corinthians were in manifest danger upon many accounts: their feuds ran high, the irregularities among them wer…
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