1This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
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But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. …
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)In these verses observe, I. The apostle threatens to be severe against obstinate sinners when he should come to Corinth, having now sent to them a first and second epistle, with proper admonitions and exhortations, in order to reform what was amiss among them. Concerning this we may notice, 1. The caution with which he proceeded in his censures: he was not hasty in using severity, but gave a first…
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