2 Corinthians 1:5

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:1-5

The God Who Is Enough 2 Corinthians 1:1-5 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God, in every need, is the God who is enough. His resources are sufficient for all, deficient for none. His supply is abundant. When Abraham stood, with raised knife, ready to slay his son, God said, "Hold thy hand." Turning, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. The ram was offered instead of the son. Then Abraham said, "Jehovah Jireh," The Lord will provide. God was enough. In Philippians we read the assuring... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3-5

‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.’ The connection of the emphasis on ‘comfort’ (exhortation, strengthening) with the final salvation comes out strongly in its... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:3-11

God Both Afflicts And Comforts All Who Are His For Their Salvation (2 Corinthians 1:3-11 ). The verses that follow lay the foundation of what he will say throughout the letter. At first sight they might appear to contain simply a message of comfort and strengthening in the face of suffering. And if it were so it would be an important message. And it would especially bring out that Paul and his fellow-workers were appointed as strengtheners of the churches. But deeper consideration brings out... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:1-11

2 Corinthians 1:1-1 Kings : . Salutation and Introduction. 2 Corinthians 1:1 f. Timothy, whose approaching visit to Corinth had been announced in 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 16:11, is now again in Paul’ s company, and joins with him in salutation to all “ God’ s people in Greece” ( cf. 2 Corinthians 9:2). 2 Corinthians 1:3-1 Kings : . Thanksgiving for Divine comfort, leading (2 Corinthians 8) to a fuller account of his sufferings. Paul does not hesitate to speak of the Father as the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:5

He calleth his and the other apostles’ sufferings, the sufferings of Christ, either because they were sufferings for Christ, that is, for doing the work which Christ had given them to do; or his and their personal sufferings, as members of that body of which Christ is the Head. Christ calleth Saul’s persecuting the saints, a persecuting of himself, Acts 9:4. Thus we read of Paul’s filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ, Colossians 1:24. So our consolation also aboundeth by... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 1:3-7

CRITICAL NOTES2 Corinthians 1:3.—John calls the Son a “Comforter” (1 John 2:1). Christ calls the Spirit a “Comforter” (John 14:16, “another” also implying that He Himself had been such to the disciples). Here Paul calls the Father a “Comforter.” Notice how “comfort” runs through 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (disguised as “consolation” in A.V.); parallel to the repeated “affliction” (same in original as “tribulation,” “trouble”). Mercies.—Also Romans 12:1; Philippians 2:1; Colossians 3:12; Hebrews... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - 2 Corinthians 1:5

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings A Sermon (No. 13) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, March 11, 1855, by the REV. C. H. Spurgeon At Exeter Hall, Strand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ." 2 Corinthians 1:5 . SEEK ye rest from your distresses ye children of woe and sorrow? This is the place where ye may lighten your burden, and lose your cares.... 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 1:5

2 Corinthians 1:5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation aboundeth by Christ.The sufferings and the consolationOur cross is not the same as Christ’s, yet we have a cross. Our sufferings are not the same as Christ’s, yet we have sufferings. The cross is like Christ’s, and the sufferings are like His, but yet not the same in kind or object. Yea there is a wide difference; for our trials have nothing to do with expiation. The meaning and use of trims.I. It shows god to be... read more

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