2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.
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Jeremiah 23:27Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
Acts 20:20How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house,
1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
2 Corinthians 4:2But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 1:19Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.
2 Timothy 2:6The husbandman, that laboureth, must first partake of the fruits.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:13-17
Effects of the Christian Ministry. ( a. d. 57.) 12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them… Read the whole commentary →