2 Corinthians 1:18

true. faithful. Greek. pistos App-150.

word. Greek. logos. App-121. Compare 1 Corinthians 1:18.

toward. unto. Greek. pros, as in verses: 2Co 1:15, 2 Corinthians 1:16; 2 Corinthians 1:20.

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 1:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But as God is true - Tyndale renders this in accordance more literally with the Greek, “God is faithful; for our preaching unto you was not yea a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(10) But [as] God [is] (r) true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. (10) He calls God as witness and as judge of his constancy in preaching an...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

But had he not laid himself open to a charge of fickleness? Had he not led them to expect that he would ere this have paid them another visit, return...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. God is faithful. By the term word he means doctrine, as is manifest from the reason that he adds, when he says, that the Son of God...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. But as God is true - Setting the God of truth before my eyes, I could not act in thi...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Yea, yea, and nay, nay?— The sense of these verses is, "I did not change my design through levity, nor did I purpose first one thing and then the c...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. He adds this lest they might think his DOCTRINE was changeable like his purposes...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Paraphrase. 'When you find me now writing from Macedonia before you have had a visit at all, you may think me changeable and capricious. (18) But I...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Yea and nay ] i.e. the use of words with a double meaning.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As God is true. — Literally, as God is faithful. The words were one of St. Paul’s usual formulæ of assertion. (Comp. 1 Corinthians 1:9 ; 1 Cori...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 3 THE CHURCH'S ONE FOUNDATION. 2 Corinthians 1:15-20 (R.V) THE emphatic words in the first sentence are "in this confidence." All the...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sincere like His Master 2 Corinthians 1:12-22 The Apostle laid great emphasis on the witness of his conscience. See Acts 23:1 ; Acts 24:16 ....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his a...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(15) And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; (16) And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But as God is true ,.... It seems that the false apostles had insinuated, that as the apostle had not kept his word in coming to them as he had prom...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. Ver. 18. Our word toward you, &c. ] God's children are all such as will not...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When I therefore was thus minded Having, therefore, purposed this; did I use lightness Did I lightly change my purpose? or, the things that I pu...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowline...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. A. D. 57. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As God is true to his promises, so he hath taught me to be true to mine. Some make these words not to be merely declarative of the truth of God, bu...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Si...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 1:12 . Rejoicing .—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2-3 ; Romans 5:11 , where notice the varyi...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul and Timothy our brother. It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. With all...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

No fickleness can be charged to the apostle:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:20 ; 2 Corinthians 1:23 ; 2 Corinthians 11:31 ; John 7:28 ; John 8:26 ; Revelation 3:14 ; Revelation 3:7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Our word to you — The whole tenor of our doctrine. Hath not been yea and nay — Wavering and uncertain.

¹⁸ But as God is true, our wordd toward you was not yea and nay.

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 1:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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