2 Corinthians 1:24
not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
Young's Literal Translation
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
23And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
Cross References
Matthew 24:49and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken,
Romans 5:2through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 3:5Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
2 Corinthians 2:1And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,
2 Corinthians 5:7for through faith we walk, not through sight —
Philippians 1:25and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of 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 →