13Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
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Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)In these verses the apostle endeavours to comfort the Corinthians, upon whom his admonitions had had such good effect. And in order thereto, 1. He tells them he had a good design in his former epistle, which might be thought severe, 2 Cor. 7:12. It was not chiefly for his cause that did the wrong , not only for his benefit, much less merely that he should be punished; nor was it merely for his cau…
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