14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
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Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. …
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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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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