2 Corinthians 13:14

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:7-14

How to Be Built Up 2 Corinthians 13:7-14 None can really injure the truth or stop its victorious progress. As well try to stop the sunrise. We often help others most in our weakness, because then we rely most on the Spirit of God. It is the noblest end of life to build up others through our own expenditure, even to the draining of our strength and resources. The world is apt at destruction; and indeed not much art is required for pulling down. But the divine work is to build; we have God’s... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

In view of his intention to visit them again the apostle urged them to personal examination. They were to test themselves, and to prove themselves whether they were in the faith. The reason for his appeal, he urged, was not that he might be approved, but that they might do right. All this long-continued argument of the apostle can hardly be read without a consciousness of his deep anxiety that the Corinthians should understand him, and know that the only motive prompting him in all his... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:14

A THREEFOLD BENEDICTION‘The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost.’ 2 Corinthians 13:14 Upon this text I base what is to me the absolute inference, that in the mind of St. Paul, when he wrote his salutation to the Corinthian Church, Jesus Christ and God and the Holy Spirit were themselves the One Deity. But somebody may say, ‘Why define God at all? Why not say, “I believe in God,” and there leave the words?’ My answer is that it is not enough... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:14

‘The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion (fellowship) of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.’ The letter comes to an end with this fullest of ascriptions, not paralleled in full elsewhere. As elsewhere in the Corinthian letters Paul brings together the three members of the Godhead (2 Corinthians 1:18-22; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 12:5-7). It is suggestive of the fact that this is deliberate in view of their divided state. Paul seek the overall activity... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:11-14

2 Corinthians 13:11-2 Chronicles : . The closing verses betray no trace of the passionate anxiety, the mingled self-abasement end self-assertion, which have marked the preceding chapters. Their precepts appear to be addressed to a people among whom calm has been established, and so to belong more naturally to chs. 1– 9 , the last of Paul’ s letters to the Corinthians. [107] [107] 2 Corinthians 2:3 seems to presuppose 2 Corinthians 13:10, 2 Corinthians 1:23 looks back to 2 Corinthians 13:2, 2... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:14

The free love of our Lord Jesus Christ, shown in the application of his redemption; that grace which floweth from him as the Fountain of grace, or cometh by him as the Mediator between God and man; the actual love of God; that good-will by which God the Father embraceth creatures in Christ, and for his sake; and all the gracious communications of the Holy Spirit of God, (by which he strengtheneth, quickeneth, or comforteth the souls of God’s people), be with you all. Whether you value me or... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:11-14

CRITICAL NOTES2 Corinthians 13:11.—Calm sunset after a stormy passage! Observe margin (better). Perfected.—As in 2 Corinthians 13:9. Comforted.—With the fuller meaning found, e.g., in “Paraclete.” Live in peace.—“Peacing it together,” like “truthing it” (Ephesians 4:15).2 Corinthians 13:1-13.—[Good paraphrase, exhibiting connection of thought, from Stanley: “Once, twice, thrice, as in the Mosaic Law of the three witnesses; by my first visit—by this Epistle, as though I had accomplished my... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:14

2 Corinthians 13:14 The Covenant of Redemption. I. Consider the character of this covenant, for this is a point of the highest importance as regards our thoughts, and our hopes, and our actions. The character of God's covenant of redemption is love. The will of the Father is to gather the Christian into Christ with an everlasting salvation. All adverse appearances, all interruptions to the consciousness of this, arising from himself or from the world, must not for a moment outweigh the great... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Corinthians 13:14

DISCOURSE: 2048THE APOSTOLICAL BENEDICTION2 Corinthians 13:14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.THE priests, under the law, were appointed to bless the people [Note: Numbers 6:22-27.]. The ministers of the Gospel also may consider this as a part of their office. All St. Paul’s epistles begin or end with an authoritative benediction: that before us is more full and comprehensive than any other.We shall endeavour... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

Chapter 13Now he said,This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. [For] I told you before, and foretell you [I'm telling you again], as if I were present [with you], the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare ( 2 Corinthians 13:1-2 ):"I'm going to be really hard on you this next time."Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in... read more

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