Galatians 5:13; Galatians 6:1; Galatians 6:10; Galatians 6:2; Jude 1:22; Jude 1:23
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him - The word rendered here as “confirm” ( κυρῶσαι kurōsai) occurs in the Ne...
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would (g) confirm [your] love toward him. (g) That at my entreaty you would declare by the consent of the whole chur...
Someone in the congregation at Corinth who had done wrong is now to be forgiven. There are still some scholars who think that the person here referre...
beseech . Greek. parakaied , as above. confirm . ratify with authority. Greek. kuroo . Only here and Galatians 1:3 ; Galatians 1:15 . Akin to...
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. That ye would confirm your love toward him - You do love him, notwithstanding t...
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. Confirm your love toward him - giving effect in act to your love; namely,...
(b) 2:8-13. The Object and Results of the severe Letter The Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter...
Paraphrase. 'Now with regard to the person who has been the occasion of this grief, he has grieved not me only, but to some extent (not to be too h...
Confirm your love ] by restoring him to the Church.
That ye would confirm your love. — The word for “confirm” (better, perhaps, ratify — comp. Galatians 3:15 ) suggests the thought of an act as fo...
Chapter 5 A PASTOR'S HEART. 2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-4 (R.V) WHEN Paul came to the end of the paragraph in which he defends...
Chapter 6 CHURCH DISCIPLINE. 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 (R.V) IN verses 5-11 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 of this Epistle, St. Paul said a great deal abou...
Tender-hearted and Forgiving 2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-11 In these opening words Paul evidently refers to the sin mentioned in...
What a remarkable light is thrown on his first letter by his declaration that he wrote it "out of much affliction and anguish of heart," and "with ma...
(1) But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2) For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me gl...
Wherefore I beseech you ,.... Or exhort you: that ye would confirm your love towards him : express your love to him in the most kind and tender ma...
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. Ver. 8. Confirm your love, &c. ] Gr. κυρωσαι, ratify it, and declare it...
Sufficient to such a man With what remarkable tenderness does the apostle treat this offender! He never once mentions his name, nor does he here so...
These first few verses are a continuation of chapter 1. Paul had purposed that he would not come to the Corinthians "in heaviness," and for this reas...
Case of the Incestuous Person. A. D. 57. 5...
OLBGrk; That you would restore him to a communion with you in your church assemblies, and take him into the bosom of your church again, and be (as b...
‘Sufficient to such a one is this punishment (‘censure, reproof, reprimand') which was inflicted by the many, so that, in contrast to that, you shoul...
CRITICAL NOTES ( N.B .— The paragraph really begins at 2 Corinthians 1:23 .) 2 Corinthians 1:1 . Determined .—As in 1 Corinthians 2:2 . For...
2 Corinthians 2:1 . But I determined that I would not come again to you in heaviness; but rather wait till the late scandal should subside. The of...
But if any have caused grief The aim of Church discipline is in the last resort the restoration of the fallen. The Church has, of course, an...
EXPOSITION Continuation of his reasons for not coming to them direct from Ephesus ( 2 Corinthians 2:1-47 ). Their treatment of the incestuous of...
The case of the notorious sinner:
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him,
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.