II Corinthians 7:14
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Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.
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anything--that is, at all. I am not ashamed--"I am not put to shame," namely, by learning from Titus that you did not realize the high character I gave him of you. as . . . all things . . . in truth, even so our boasting . . . is found a truth--As our speaking in general to you was true (Co2 1:18), so our particular boasting to Titus concerning you is now, by his report, proved to be truth (compare Co2 9:2). Some oldest manuscripts read expressly, "concerning you"; this in either reading is the sense.
Open source ↗This chapter begins with an exhortation to progressive holiness and a due regard to the ministers of the gospel (Co2 7:1-4). Then the apostle returns from a long digression to speak further of the affair concerning the incestuous person, and tells them what comfort he received in his distress about that matter, upon his meeting with Titus (Co2 7:5-7), and how re rejoiced in their repentance, with the evidences thereof (Co2 7:8-11). And, lastly, he concludes with endeavouring to comfort the Corinthians, upon whom his admonitions had had so good an effect (Co2 7:12-16).
Open source ↗7:14 All along Paul had been optimistic, despite his fears, about the outcome of Titus’s trip to Corinth.
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Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.
That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.
For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,