20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
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But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. …
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. …
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-20)That the apostle might the better dispose these Christians to bear with him in the reproofs which he was obliged to give them, he here expresses his great affection to them, and the very tender concern he had for their welfare: he was not like them—one thing when among them and another when absent from them. Their disaffection to him had not removed his affection from them; but he still bore the s…
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