2 Corinthians 7:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. ”

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Receive us - Tyndale renders this: “understand us.” The word used here ( χωρήσατε chōrēsate) means properly, give space, place, or room; and it means here evidently, make place or room for...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(1) (b) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. (1) He returns again from that admonition to his own person, contrasting with them the testimonies bot...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2-4 . With 2 Corinthians 7:2 Paul returns to the thought of 2 Corinthians 6:13 . Make wide your hearts.. Make room in them for us. The sentences which follow are full of changing...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Receive . Make room for. Greek. choreo. See John 21:25 . Compare 2 Corinthians 6:11 ; 2 Corinthians 6:13 . wronged . Greek. adikeo. See Acts 7:24 . no man . Greek. oudeis. corrupted...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. Make room for us. Again he returns from a statement of doctrine to treat of what more especially concerns himself, but simply with this intention — that he may not lose his pains in admon...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. Receive us - Χωρησατε ἡμας. This address is variously understood. Receive us into your affections - love us as...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

We have defrauded no man.— The original word signifies, "to indulge a covetous temper, and make a prey of others by it;" and perhaps intimates, that the false teachers, of whom he had so much reaso...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. Receive us - with enlarged hearts ( 2 Corinthians 6:13 ). We have wronged ... corrupted ... defraude...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(e) 7:2-16. The Apostle's Joy in the Corinthians' repentance St. Paul goes on to ask them to give him their affection, and renews his assurance of purity of deed and motive. He tells them of the...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Receive us; we have wronged no man. — Better, Make room for us ; we wronged no man: with the same change of tense in the verbs that follow. There is an almost infinite pathos in that entreaty, u...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 19 REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. 2 Corinthians 7:2-16 (R.V) IN this fine passage St. Paul completes, as far as it lay upon his side to do so, his reconciliation with the Corinthians. It conclu...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Separate from All Uncleanness 2 Corinthians 6:11-18 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1-4 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The section culminates in an appeal full of local coloring and suggestion. In a great cry he gave expression to the hunger of his heart when he wrote, "Make room for us" (see margin). He then declare...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(2) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. (3) I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Receive us ,.... Into your affections, let us have a place in your hearts, as you have in ours: Gospel ministers ought to be received with love and respect, both into the hearts and houses of the sa...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. Ver. 2. Receive us ] Gr. χωρησατε, Locum date. Make room for us in your hearts and houses. Set wide open...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Receive us With that affection which is due to the faithful servants of Christ, and to those who have been instruments in your conversion and edification; for, whatever may have been insinuated by...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 1 is plainly connected with chapter 6. Because the saints of God have these promises, and because they are dearly beloved, they are exhorted to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the fle...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Progressive Holiness. A. D. 57. 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us clea...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Receive us; let us have a room in your hearts and esteem, or (more generally) accept us, as you ought to receive and accept the ministers of Christ. As our heart is enlarged towards you, so let you...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Having Confirmed His Own Credentials And His Own Way of Living He Pleads For A Them To Turn From All That Might Hinder Them and For Their Equal Full and Exclusive Response to God and to Christ ( 2 C...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 7:1 . Therefore .—This verse a branch broken from 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 . This word is like the jagged fibres which tell of the violence, and point back to the pare...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 7:1 . Having therefore these promises. Our good archbishop Langton is blamed by many critics for separating this verse from the preceding chapter. The great and precious promises of...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Receive us; we have wronged no man. The apostle’s request I. The ground on which he urged it--viz., that he deserved it. 1. It was a simple matter of justice. “We have wronged no man,” etc....
2 Corinthians 7:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Conclusion of his appeal ( 2 Corinthians 7:1 ). The apostle's feelings towards them ( 2 Corinthians 7:2-47 ). Explanation of the objects of his last letter, and expression of his joy...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Paul's Consolation and Joy because of the Corinthians. A frank and urgent appeal to sanctification:
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:3 ; 1 Samuel 12:4 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:3-6 ; 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 2 Corinthians 11:16 ; 2 Corinthians 11:9 ; 2 Corinthians 12:14-18 ; 2 Corinthians 4:2 ; 2...
2 Corinthians 7:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Receive us — The sum of what is said in this, as well as in the tenth and following chapters. We have hurt no man — In his person. We have corrupted no man — In his principles. We have defrauded no...

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 7:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 7:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Corinthians 7:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 7:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes