I missed posting on Monday, but will hopefully be all caught up on the important aspects of my life this week. Here's the next lesson in 2 Corinthians. 12 Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace. 13 For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, 14 as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
"Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:12-14
(Read 2 Corinthians 1:12-14)
Though, as a sinner, the apostle could only rejoice and glory in
Christ Jesus, yet, as a believer, he might rejoice and glory in being
really what he professed. Conscience witnesses concerning the steady
course and tenor of the life. Thereby we may judge ourselves, and not by
this or by that single act. Our conversation will be well ordered, when
we live and act under such a gracious principle in the heart. Having
this, we may leave our characters in the Lord's hands, but using proper
means to clear them, when the credit of the gospel, or our usefulness,
calls for it."
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