2 Corinthians 5:11-13
1599 Geneva Bible
11 [a]Knowing therefore that [b]terror of the Lord, we persuade men, and we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also that we are made manifest in your consciences.
12 [c]For we praise not ourselves again unto you, but give you an occasion to rejoice of us that ye may have to answer against them, which rejoice in the [d]face, and not in the heart.
13 [e]For whether we be out of our wit, we are it to God: or whether we be in our right mind, we are it unto you.
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- 2 Corinthians 5:11 Now he passeth over, and taking occasion of the former sentence, returneth to 4:16, confirming his own sincerity and his fellows’.
- 2 Corinthians 5:11 That terrible judgment.
- 2 Corinthians 5:12 He removeth all suspicion of pride, by a new reason, because it is behoovable, not for his part, but for theirs, that his Apostleship be counted sincere against the vain ostentation of a few others.
- 2 Corinthians 5:12 In outward disguising, and that colored show of man’s wisdom and eloquence, and not in true godliness, which is sealed in the heart.
- 2 Corinthians 5:13 The meaning is: Even when I am mad (as some men think of me) while I seem as a fool to boast myself, I do it for your profit, no less than when I preach the Gospel simply unto you.
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