2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 14:20And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gaue him tythe of all.
Nehemiah 9:5And the Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stande vp, and praise the Lord your God for euer, and euer, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth aboue all thankesgiuing and praise.
Psalms 18:46Let the Lord liue, and blessed be my strength, and the God of my saluation be exalted.
Psalms 86:5For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee.
Daniel 4:34Now therefore I Nebuchad-nezzar prayse and extoll and magnifie the King of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, and his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pride, he is able to abase.
Micah 7:18Who is a God like vnto thee, that taketh away iniquitie, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage! He reteineth not his wrath for euer, because mercie pleaseth him.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:2-3
Second Corinthians In his former epistle the apostle had signified his intentions of coming to Corinth, as he passed through Macedonia ( xvi. 5 ), but, being providentially hindered for some time, he writes this second epistle to them about a year after the former; and there seem to be these two urgent occasions:—1. The case of the incestuous person, who lay under censure, required that with all speed he should be restored and received again into communion. This therefore he gives directions about ( ch. ii. ), and… Read the whole commentary →