14For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)In these verses observe, I. The apostle refuses to justify himself, or to act by such rules as the false apostles did, 2 Cor. 10:12. He plainly intimates that they took a wrong method to commend themselves, in measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves , which was not wise . They were pleased, and did pride themselves, in their own attainments, and never consider…
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