righteousness
( See Scofield) - (1 John 3:7).
Therefore it is no great thing ... - It is not to be deemed surprising. You are not to wonder if people of the basest, blackest character put on...
A Tender Appeal to the Church as a Whole. This appeal may sound like foolish sentiment. Let them bear with him. Indeed he is sure that they do. W...
ministers . Greek. diakonos. App-190. righteousness . Greek. dikaiosune. App-191. according to . Greek. kata , App-104.
15. Whose end shall be. He adds this for the consolation of the pious. For it is the statement of a courageous man, who despises the foolish...
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works....
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their work...
(b) 11:1-15. Defence of his Gospel and of his Independence St. Paul says that he also will now boast a little, for he is as much an Apostle as t...
Paraphrase. 'I assure you, by the truth of Christ within me, that I shall permit no one to interfere with the grounds of this boast in the district...
If his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness. — The words seem to point to one of the special characteristics of the Apos...
Chapter 25 FOOLISH BOASTING. 2 Corinthians 11:7-29 (R.V) THE connection of 2 Corinthians 11:7 with what precedes is not at once clear. The A...
Constrained to Silence Boasters 2 Corinthians 11:10-21 In vivid language, which proves how greatly he had been moved, the Apostle contrasts the...
Having thus stated the true grounds of glorying, and being about to make his boast (such action having been made necessary by the opposition), the ap...
(11) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or anothe...
Therefore it is no great thing ,.... It is no strange and wonderful thing; it may easily be given into; no man need to make any doubt of it, or hesi...
For such are false apostles Whatever they may pretend to the contrary, being destitute of that divine mission which all the true apostles have; de...
If it seems strange that Paul asks the Corinthians to bear with a little folly in him, yet let us still remember that it is God who inspires him to w...
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. A. D. 57. ...
It is no wonder if there be like servants, like masters: and as the devil, in order to the deceiving of souls, pretends to what he is not, viz. a fri...
Paul Defends His Apostleship And Compares Himself With His Opponents ( 2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ). An exact determination of who the visiting preache...
‘For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. And no marvel, for even Satan fashions himself in...
CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 11:12 . Occasion .—General drift clear, particular application difficult, from our ignorance of facts. Hard to reco...
2 Corinthians 11:1 . Bear with me a little in my folly; for I must glory a little when the advocate of self-applause. I know it is folly for a man...
AN APOSTLE DRIVEN AGAINST HIS WILL INTO A SEMBLANCE OF BOASTING . EXPOSITION An apology for the "foolishness" of boasting (...
Paul insists upon observing this course on account of the false teachers:
1 Corinthians 9:11 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23 ; 2 Corinthians 3:9 ; 2 Kings 5:13 ; 2 Peter 2:13-22 ; 2 Peter 2:3 ; 2 Thessal...
Therefore it is no great, no strange, thing; whose end, notwithstanding all their disguises, shall be according to their works.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.