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The earnest care of Titus.

A. D. 60.

m Ex. 16. 18.

n ver. 6.

o ch. 12. 18.

p1 Cor. 16. 3,

4.

Or, gift, ver. 4, 6, 7. ch. 9. 8.

q ch. 4. 15.

Phil. 4. 8.

II. CORINTHIANS.

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19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:

20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us :

Rom. 12. 17. 21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

1 Pet. 2. 12.

22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the Or, he hath great confidence which I have in you.

s Phil. 2. 25.

t ch. 7. 14. & 9.2.

a Acts 11. 29.

Rom. 15. 26.

1 Cor. 16. 1.

23 Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

CHAPTER IX.

The apostle sheweth why, though he knew their forwardness, he yet sent Titus and his brethren beforehand; 6 and exhorteth them to give bountifully. 15 God's unspeakable gift.

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For the saints, it is superfluous

OR as touching the ministering

ch. 8. 4. Gal. for me to write to you:

2. 10.

b ch. 8. 19.

c ch. 8. 24.

d ch. 8. 10.

e ch. 8. 6, 17, 18, 22.

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God loveth a cheerful giver.

come with me, and find you unpre- A. D. 60. pared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your † bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same 11.1 Sam might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly ; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, 128 càl always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

i Prov. 11. 21 25.&N Phil. 4. 19.

1 Is. 55, 10,

9 As it is written, He hath dispers-Ps. 112 9. ed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

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m Hos. 10, 12 Matt. 6...

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11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth Or, liberalithrough us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

13 While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

CHAPTER X.

Against those who disparaged his bodily presence and speech, he asserteth his spiritual might and authority; 12 and reproveth them for stretching themselves beyond their measure, and for boasting themselves of other men's labours.

2 For I know the forwardness of NOW 1 Paul myself beseech you

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by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you :

n ch. 1. 11. & 4. 15.

• ch. 8. 14.

P Matt. 5. 16.

q Heb. 15. 16

r ch. 8. 1.

s James 1. 17

a Rom. 12, 1 b ver. 10 ch. 12 5,7,9 Or, ia ciward ap pearance.

e 1 Cor. 4. 2. ch. 13, 2, 10.

2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of Or, reckon. us as if we walked according to the flesh.

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9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters:

10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his ch. 12. 5,7,9. bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible:

Gal. 4. 13.

r1 Cor. 1. 17.
& 2. 1, 4.
ch. 11. 6.

ch. 3. 1. & 5. 12.

1 Or, understand it not. t ver. 15.

I Or, line.

1 Cor. 3. 5, 10. & 4. 15. & 9. 1.

* Rom. 15. 20.

Or, magnifed in you.

I Or, rule.

y Is 65. 16. Jer. 9. 24.

1 Cor. 1. 31. z Prov. 27. 2.

a Rom. 2. 29.

1 Cor. 4. 5.

11 Let such a one think this, that,
such as we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such will we be
also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves
of the number, or compare ourselves
with some that commend themselves:
but they, measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves
among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things
without our measure, but according
to the measure of the rule which God
hath distributed to us, a measure to
reach even unto you.

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14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you; for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ :

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his apostolic authority.

CHAPTER XI.

The apostle's jealousy over them. 5 He is not behind
the chiefest of the apostles. 7 His preaching the
gospel freely to them. 13 The false apostles. 16
He asketh to be indulged in boasting himself a lit-
tle; 21 and sheweth that, in respect to birth, he was
not inferior to those deceitful workers. 2 and, as to
sufferings and labours for Christ, far superior.

W with me a little in my folly.

YOULD to God ye could bear

and indeed bear with me.

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A. D. 60.

a ver. 16. ch. 5. 13.

Or, ye do bear with me.

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c Hos. 2. 19, 20. 1 Cor. 4. 15.

2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy for I have espoused b Gal. 4. 17, you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

d Col. 1. 28. ⚫ Lev. 21. 13. f Gen. 3. 4. John 8. 44. Eph. 6. 24. Col. 2. 4, 8, 18. 1 Tim. 1. 3. & 4. 1. Heb. 13. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 17.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have noth Gal. 1. 7, 8. accepted, ye might well bear with

him.

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Or, with me.

1 Cor. 15. 10.

ch. 12. 11. Gal. 2. 6.

1 Cor. 1. 17.

& 2. 1, 13.

ch. 10. 10.

Eph. 3. 4.

m ch. 4. 2. &
5. 11. & 12.
12.

n Acts 18. 3.
1 Cor. 9. 6,
12. ch. 10.1.

ch. 12. 13. 1 Thess. 2. 9. 2 Thess. 3. 8.9. p Phil. 4. 10, 15, 16.

9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable Acts 20, 35. to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will ch. 12. 14, I keep myself.

10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boast ing in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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15 Not boasting of things without
our measure, that is, of other men's
labours; but having hope, when your
faith is increased, that we shall be
enlarged by you according to our
rule abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the re-selves into the apostles of Christ.
gions beyond you, and not to boast in 14 And no marvel; for Satan him- ch. 2. 17.
another man's line of things made self is transformed into an angel of
ready to our hand.
light.

17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

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15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

1. 1 John 4.

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Paul's vindication of

A. D. 60.

Or, suffer. c ver. 1. ch. 12. 6, 11. d 1 Cor. 7. 6, 12.

e ch. 9. 4.

f Phil. 3. 3, 4.

g 1 Cor. 4. 10.

h Gal. 2. 4. & 4.9.

í ch. 10. 10.

k Phil. 3. 4.

1 Acts 22. 3. Rom. 11. 1 Phil. 3. 5.

m 1 Cor. 15. 10.

n Acts 9. 16. & 20. 23. & 21.

11. ch. 6. 4,5. 01 Cor. 15. 30, 31, 32. ch. 1. 9, 10. & 4. 11, & 6. 9.

p Deut. 25. 3.

q Acts 16. 22.

r Acts 14. 19.

s Acts 27. 41.

13, 50, & 14. 5. & 17. 5. & 20. 3. & 21. 31. & 23. 10, 11. & 25. 3.

II. CORINTHIANS.

16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit, whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

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22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more; "in labours more abundant, "in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

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24 Of the Jews five times received I he heareth of me. P forty stripes save one.

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25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

26 In journeyings often, in perils of t Acts 9. 23. & waters, in perils of robbers, 'in perils by mine own countrymen, "in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils Acts 14. 5. & in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

19. 23.

x Acts 20. 31. ch. 6. 5.

y 1 Cor. 4. 11.

z See Acts 20. 18, &c. Rom. 1. 14. a1 Cor. 8. 13. & 9. 22.

b ch. 12. 5, 9, 10.

e Rom. 1. 9. & 91. ch. 1. 23. Gal. 1. 20.

1 Thess. 2. 5.

d Rom. 9. 5.

e Acts 9. 24,

25.

27 In weariness and painfulness, * in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, 1 the care of all the churches.

29 a Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

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7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, ɛ the_messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

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e ch. 10, 8. & 11. 16.

( See Ez. 28. 24. Gal. 4. 13, 14.

g Job 2 7. Luke 13 16. h. See Dent. 3 25-27. Matt. 26.44.

9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory i ch. 11.50. in my infirmities, that the power of 1 Pet. 4. 14. Christ may rest upon me.

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Rom. 5. S.

ch. 7. 4.

10 Therefore I take pleasure in in-1 firmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: " for when I am weak, mch. 15. 4. then am I strong.

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11 I am become a fool in glorying; ch. 11. 1, 16, ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very och 11.5. chiefest apostles, though PI be nothing.

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12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Gal. 2. 6, 7, 3, P1 Cor. 3. 7. & 15, 6,9 Eph. 3. & Rom 151, 19. 16or 2. ch. 4.2 k 8. 4. & 11.6.

r1 Cor. 1. 7.

13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome 1 Cor. 9. 12. to you? forgive me this wrong.

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14 Behold, the third time I am ready

ch. 11. 9. t ch. 11. 6.

u ch. 13. .

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15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

16 But be it so, I did not burden b ch. 6. 12, 13. you nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

e ch. 11. 9.

d ch. 7. 2.

⚫ ch. 8. 6, 16, 22.

I ch. 8. 18.

ch. 5. 12.

Rom. 9. 1. ch. 11. 31. i1 Cor. 10. 33.

17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

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19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, 1 Cor. 4. 21. and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

ch. 10. 2. & 13. 2, 10.

1 ch. 2. 1, 4. m ch. 13. 2.

1 Cor. 5. 1.

▲ ch. 12. 14.

b Num. 35. 30. Deut. 17. 6. & 19. 15.

Matt. 18. 16.
John 3. 17.
Heb. 10. 28.

e ch. 10. 2.

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Offenders are threatened.

to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

A. D. 60.

d ch. 12. 21.

ch. 1. 23. Matt. 10. 20.

1 Cor. 5. 4.
ch. 2. 10.

1 Cor. 9. 2. Phil. 2. 7, 8.

3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ | f speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty 5 in you. 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live Or, with with him by the power of God toward you.

1 Pet. 3. 18. i Rom. 6. 4.

him. * See ch. 10.3, 4.

5 Examine yourselves, whether ye 11 Cor. 11. 28. be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be " reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

m Rom. 8. 10. Gal. 4. 19. n1 Cor. 9. 27.

o cb. 6. 9.

p 1 Cor. 4. 10. ch. 11. 30. & 12. 5, 9, 10. q 1 Thess. 3. 10.

r1 Cor. 4. 21. ch. 2. 3. & 10. 2. & 12. 20, 21.

9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong and this also we wish, even your perfection. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, 'according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. t ch. 10. 8. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, "be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.

13 All the saints salute you.

14 The of the Lord Jesus

Tins is the third time I aouth of Christ, and the love of God, and

two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write

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Tit. 1. 13.

u Rom. 12. 16, 18. & 15. 5.

1 Cor. 1. 10. Phil. 2. 2. & 3. 16. 1 Pet 3. 8.

Rom. 15, 33. y Rom. 16. 16. 1 Cor. 16. 20. 1 Thess. 5. 26. 1 Pet. 5. 14.

a the communion of the Holy Ghost, z Rom. 16. 24. be with you all. Amen.

The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

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a Phil. 2. 1.

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