23Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, …
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: …
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-33)Here the apostle gives a large account of his own qualifications, labours, and sufferings (not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who had enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ), and wherein he excelled the false apostles, who would lessen his character and usefulness among the Corinthians. Observe, I. He mentions the privileges of his birth (2 Cor. 11:22),…
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