13Now for a recompence in the same,(I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
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I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)The apostle proceeds to address himself more particularly to the Corinthians, and cautions them against mingling with unbelievers. Here observe, I. How the caution is introduced with a profession, in a very pathetic manner, of the most tender affection to them, even like that of a father to his children , 2 Cor. 6:11-13. Though the apostle was happy in a great fluency of expressions, yet he seemed…
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