2 Corinthians 1:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:18-20

‘But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him is yes. For however many be the promises of God, in him is the yes, wherefore also through him is the Amen, to the glory of God through us.’ He denies utterly the suggestion that he is negative or fickle by pointing to the faithfulness of the God, with Whose word he comes and Whom he seeks to be... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:15-22

2 Corinthians 1:15-Song of Solomon : . But had he not laid himself open to a charge of fickleness? Had he not led them to expect that he would ere this have paid them another visit, returning through Corinth from Macedonia, and taking from Corinth his final departure to Judæ a when he went to convey the money collected for the poor Christians at Jerusalem. It was not true that in abandoning that plan he had showed himself one whose word was not to be trusted. It was true that while the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:20

As Christ was yea, and all his doctrine certain and uniform, so all the promises of God are yea; the promises of the Messiah have their yea and Amen in him; all the promises of grace, whatsoever is promised to believers, shall be verified by him, that so God may be glorified, and have from men the honour of being always esteemed a true and faithful God, one that cannot fail and falsify his word. But how are the promises of God yea and Amen in Christ by us? Answer. As the ministers of the gospel... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:12-24

CRITICAL NOTES2 Corinthians 1:12. Rejoicing.—stronger and more correct. Cognate word in Romans 5:2-3; Romans 5:11, where notice the varying translation; an exultant, sometimes defiantly exultant, joy. The “rejoicing” looks not backward to 2 Corinthians 1:17, but forward to the “testimony” etc., which occasions it. For.—Q.d. “You will thus pray, and give thanks, for us; we are not yet estranged; I have done, so far as I know, nothing on my part to estrange us.” Notice “holiness,” by a better... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:20

2 Corinthians 1:20 (R.V.) God's Certainties and Man's Certitudes. I. Note first God's certainties in Christ. (1) There is the certainty about God's heart. The hopes and shadowy fore-revelations of the loving heart of God are confirmed by the fact of Christ's life and death. (2) In Him we have the certainty of pardon. (3) Again, we have in Christ Divine certainties in regard to life. We have certainties for life in the matter of protection, guidance, supply of all necessity, and the like,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Corinthians 1:20

DISCOURSE: 2001THE STABILITY OF THE PROMISES2 Corinthians 1:20. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.MANKIND in general discover much versatility in their spirit and conduct. They form purposes and rescind them according as they are influenced by carnal hopes or fears; but the Gospel teaches us to lay our plans with wisdom, and to execute them with firmness. A light, fickle, wavering mind, if not incompatible with, is at least unworthy of, the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:1-24

Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1.The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle, which is a rather stern epistle, and was a corrective epistle seeking to correct a lot of the doctrinal errors that did exist, seeking to bring them from their carnality into a real spiritual walk. A mark of their carnality, one of the marks of their carnality, was the party spirit that existed. For... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 1:1-24

2 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul and Timothy our brother. It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. With all the saints which are in Achaia; in which peninsula the christians were now multiplied. Corinth was then also the capital, and the seat of the Roman government, having a ready communication with the country. 2 Corinthians 1:2 . Grace be to you. This is much the same as in 1 Corinthians 1:3. Romans 1:7. These benedictions comprise the love of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Corinthians 1:20

2 Corinthians 1:20For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.All the promisesI. The dignity of the promises. They are “the promises of God.”1. They were each one made by Him according to the purpose of His own will.2. They are links between His decrees and His acts; being the voice of the decree, and the herald of the act.3. They display the qualities of Him who uttered them. They are true, immutable, powerful, eternal, etc.4. They remain in union... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:20

20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Ver. 20. In him are yea and amen ] That is, truth and assurance. They will eat their way over all Alps of opposition, as one speaketh. read more

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