2 CORINTHIANS 7:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.”
I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well — Paul's earlier boasting about Corinth to Titus is vindicated. Their response confirms his confidence. Word and reality align.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 7:14
“For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf.” It is high praise when the teacher boasted, for he says, “I was not put to shame.” I therefore rejoiced, because ye showed yourselves to be amended and proved my words by your deeds. So that the honor accruing to me was twofold; first, in that you had made progress; next, in that I was not found to fall short of the truth. 2 Corinthians 7:14. “But as we spoke always to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made…
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