14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. …
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? …
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)In these verses the apostle addresses himself to the Corinthians two ways:— I. He blames them for what was faulty in them; namely, that they had not stood up in his defence as they ought to have done, and so made it the more needful for him to insist so much on his own vindication. They in manner compelled him to commend himself, who ought to have been commended of them 2 Cor. 12:11. And had they,…
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