6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
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In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, …
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)In these verses the apostle treats concerning the incestuous person who had been excommunicated, which seems to be one principal cause of his writing this epistle. Here observe, 1. He tells them that the crime of that person had grieved him in part ; and that he was grieved also with a part of them, who, notwithstanding this scandal had been found among them, were puffed up and had not mourned , 1…
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