135 matching verse commentaries
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 all the saints which are in all Achaia: Paul is very jealous of his apostleship. There were some in Corinth who denied it, and therefore he takes care, at the very commencement of this Epistle,—as he does in beginning most...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,— Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleship altogether. 2Co_1:1. And Timothy our brother,— Whom, in all humility, he associates with himself, although he was a younger man, of far less consequence; but Paul loved...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Christianity is a religion of benedictions. Whereas worldly people often use the language of courtesy towards one another without meaning what they say, the saints of God put a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. What a wonderful source of grace and peace! “God our Father.” How can he give other than grace and peace to his own children? “And from the Lord Jesus Christ,” our redeeming Saviour, who has given himself for us, and who has graven our names on the palms of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Let me read those titles again: “The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.” Do not the second and third titles derive much of their significance from the first one? It is because God is “the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. Nothing less, then, shall be given to the tried people of God than that same...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. Experience teaches the first rank of God’s servants, and their experience of sorrow and consolation is often the means of enabling them to be the means of blessing to others. Almost...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. Are we not willing to endure the greater suffering that we may enjoy the greater consolation?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. The apostles were the most tried, but they were the most comforted. They had to stand the brunt of the battle, but the Lord was their strength in a very special sense. Observe the balance in this verse: “as the sufferings,” “so our consolation;” and “as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. We receive both suffering and consolation for the sake of others, and we are bound to give out again all that we receive. It is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. That, is the grand object of Christians, to live for others. When God has helped us to receive both our comforts and our sorrows...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: but we had the sentence of death in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. How these things are put together! God does not call his people to the one without the other,— no consolation without affliction; and, blessed be his name, no affliction without consolation!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: Why would Paul have them know this but that they might understand that he had to suffer as they did, and even more. Sometimes, God’s people are apt to think that their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we: should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; It is supposed by some that the apostle was in danger of being put to death in some extraordinary way,— perhaps by wild...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. Much prayer leads to much thanksgiving. It should be a great cause for joy when numbers of Christians unite in praying for any Christian minister, for they will unite also in praising God on his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. When many pray, after the blessings is received, many will give thanks. Paul rejoices to have been the object of interest to a large number of Christians everywhere in the time of his great peril;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshy wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. There had been whispers, among these Corinthians, that Paul had concealed a double meaning in some of his writings, and also...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. For to them he had been specially particular, that in no point they should speak of him as having used the wisdom of words....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; as also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. See how Paul restrains himself in wilting to these people, he had good cause to be offended, for...