2 Corinthians 6:6

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Summary

2 Corinthians 6:6

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Pureness

Titus 2:7

Knowledge

Long suffering

2 Timothy 4:2

By the

1 Peter 1:12

Love

Bible References

Pureness

Receive me as one who has wronged no man, who has corrupted no man, who has defrauded no man.

you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe.

don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity.

the elder women as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity.

In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,

Knowledge

for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to enlighten others in the knowledge of the glory of God, which shines in the person of Jesus Christ.

if my language is inelegant, my knowledge is not contemptible; but has been fully display'd among you on all occasions.

As for me, my brethren, when I appear'd among you, it was not to represent to you the divine mystery in sublime language, and with human literature.

by the reading whereof you may perceive how far I am let into the secret of Christ.

For this cause, ever since we heard of it, we incessantly pray for you, requesting that you may be endued with respect to the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual discernment:

in whom are reserv'd all the treasures of wd om and knowledge.

Long suffering

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;

being fortified in so effectual a manner, as to sustain your trials with constancy and joy:

be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:

As for me, you are perfectly acquainted with my doctrine, my conduct, my designs, my temper, my benevolence, my constancy,

to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

By the

which shows you to be the epistle of Christ, written by my ministration, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on living tables of the heart.

if he that is come to you, preaches another Jesus whom I have not preached, or if ye receive other gifts of the spirit, than what ye have received from me, or another gospel, than what you have accepted, you might well bear with his pretensions:

by virtue of the miracles and prodigies wrought by the power of the divine spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and the neighbouring country, quite to Illyricum,

my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:

this one thing I desire to know of you, did you receive the spirit by the works of the law, or by the gospel preach'd to you?

since the gospel we preach'd, did not consist only of words, but was fully confirm'd by miracles and gifts of the holy spirit, you yourselves being witnesses, what we did among you and for you.

and were answer'd, that it was not they, but we, who were concern'd in the events which they predicted, events which have been now represented to you by those, whom the holy spirit from heaven inspired to preach the gospel to you: a secret which the angels desire to penetrate into.

Love

for out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not to make you uneasy, but to make you sensible of the overflowing tenderness which I have for you.

why so? is it because I love you not? far otherwise, God knows.

I shall be glad to sacrifice myself and all I have for your service, even tho' it should happen that the more I love you, the less I should be beloved.

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.