2 Corinthians 1:24
not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
1770 John Worsley NT
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
23But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth:
Cross References
Matthew 24:49and begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to revel with drunkards:
Romans 5:2through whom also we have admission by faith into this grace in which we stand, and boast in hope of the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 3:5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whose means ye embraced the faith, even as the Lord gave success to each of them?
2 Corinthians 2:1But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief:
2 Corinthians 5:7(for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say,
Philippians 1:25And as I am confident of this, I know that I shall abide and shall continue with you all, for your improvement and the joy 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 →