2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we are lords over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for it is by faith ye stand.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall be eating and drinking with drunkards;
Romans 5:2By whom we are brought by faith into this grace, in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 3:5For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the Lord gave to him?
2 Corinthians 2:1And I determined this with myself, that I would not again come to you in sadness.
2 Corinthians 5:7(for we walk by faith, and not by sight;)
Philippians 1:25And this I confidently know, that I shall continue and remain, for your joy, and for the furtherance of your 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 →