2 Corinthians 1:24
not because we have dominion over your faith, but because we are assistants of your joy. For by faith you stand.
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In The King James Version
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 24:49and so, he begins to strike his fellow servants, and he eats and drinks with the inebriated:
Romans 5:2For through him we also have access by faith to this grace, in which we stand firm, and to glory, in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.
1 Corinthians 3:5We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.
2 Corinthians 2:1But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow.
2 Corinthians 5:7For we walk by means of faith, and not by sight.
Philippians 1:25And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and that I shall continue to remain with all of you, for your advancement and for your joy in the faith,
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:16-24
Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. ( a. d. 57.) 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 come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judæa. 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.… Read the whole commentary →