3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
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O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. …
So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. …
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. 1-4)These verses contain a double exhortation:— I. To make a progress in holiness, or to perfect holiness in the fear of God , 2 Cor. 7:1. This exhortation is given with most tender affection to those who were dearly beloved, and enforced by strong arguments, even the consideration of those exceedingly great and precious promises which were mentioned in the former chapter, and which the Corinthians ha…
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