2 Corinthians 12:17

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 12:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Did I make a gain ... - In refuting this slander, Paul appeals boldly to the facts, and to what they knew. “Same the man,” says he, “who has thus...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Retrospect of the Boasting. This paragraph is marked by rapid oscillation of feeling. Now that he has made and proved his claim, the same doubt sei...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Did I . The question, expecting. negative answer, is introduced by me . make. gain . Greek. pleonekteo. See 2 Corinthians 2:11 . by . Greek....
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Did I make a gain of you - Did any person I ever sent to preach the Gospel to you, or h...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Paul's reply: You know well I did not. My associates were as disinterested as my...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

His Privileges and Trials The Apostle unwillingly resumes his boasting and tells of a revelation he received from God; but returns again to dwell...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Paraphrase. 'I am now about to pay you a third visit, and, as on former occasions, I shall accept nothing for my support. It is not your possession...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

By any of them whom I sent unto you? — The English expresses the meaning of the Greek, but does not show, as that does, the vehement agitation whic...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 27 NOT YOURS, BUT YOU. 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 (R.V) EXPOSITORS differ widely in characterising the three or four brief paragraphs into...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“I Seek not Yours, but You” 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 “The long burst of passionate self-vindication has now at last expended itself,” says Dean S...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The boasting continues. However, it takes on a new and startling characteristic. In his apostleship there had been something supernatural, something...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Did I make a gain of you ,.... He appeals to the Corinthians against such calumnies and false insinuations, whether ever he had circumvented them in...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Ver. 17. Whom I sent unto you ] It is said of the pope, that he can never lack mone...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Be it so , &c. But some may object; though I did not burden you Though I did not take any thing of you myself; yet being crafty, I caught you...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

If in chapter 11 we have seen God's grace in sustaining the vessel through all adversity, Paul now speaks of the other side of this, the grace which...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Expostulations. A. D. 57. 11 I am b...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 17,18. The apostle, to avoid or wipe off this imputation, appealeth to themselves to name any person (whom he had sent unto them) that had taken...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Assures Them of His Care For Them ( 2 Corinthians 12:14-18 ). He declares that he intends shortly to visit them for a third time. But when he d...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent to you?' Did any of the people whom he sent take advantage of them? Did they come a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES ( No break, except that of a new paragraph .) 2 Corinthians 12:1 .—Note reading; probably, as in R.V. Remember how full is Paul...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 12:1 . It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. To disclosures of the divi...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The revelations vouchsafed to him ( 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 ). The counteracting "thorn in the flesh" ( 2 Corinthians 12:7-47 ). One mo...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 16:10 ; 1 Corinthians 4:17 ; 2 Corinthians 12:18 ; 2 Kings 5:16 ; 2 Kings 5:20-27
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I answer this lying accusation by appealing to plain fact. Did I make a gain of you by Titus — Or any other of my messengers? You know the contrary...

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Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 12:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Corinthians 12:17