19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. …
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)Here, I. He tells them of his having sent Timothy to them, to bring them into remembrance of his ways in Christ, as he taught every where in every church (1 Cor. 4:17)-- to remind them of his ways in Christ, to refresh their memory as to his preaching and practice, what he taught, and how he lived among them. Note, Those who have had ever so good teaching are apt to forget, and need to have their…
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