2 Corinthians Not Lording Over Your Faith

Our Boast in the Day of the Lord

Assisting In Paul’s Ministry

A Second Grace

The Certainty We Have in The Promised from God

He Established Us After Anointing, Sealing, and Giving the Spirit as an Earnest

Not As Lording Over Your Faith, 2 Corinthians 1:23-24

Paul Did Not Come to Corinth to Spare Them, 2 Corinthians 1:23

2 Corinthians 1:23

And I call upon the God, a witness concerning my soul, that sparing you I did not come anymore to Corinth,

Wolves do not spare the flock, Acts 20:29

Acts 20:29 NASB95

“I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

God not sparing His Own Son, Romans 8:32

Romans 8:32 NASB95

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

The Natural Branches Were Not Spared, Romans 11:21

Romans 11:21 NASB95

for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.

The Angels that Sinned Were Not Spared, 2 Peter 2:4

2 Peter 2:4 NASB95

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

The Ancient World Was Not Spared, Only Noah and His Family, 2 Peter 2:5

2 Peter 2:5 NASB95

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

God is a Witness Concerning My Soul

Paul’s Emotional Desire to Spare Them

He is Stated There Was No Other Reasons, as False Apostles Tried to Claim

Not As Lording Over Their Faith, 2 Corinthians 1:24

2 Corinthians 1:24 (NASB95)

Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

Lording over is to act as a lord or master over someone

The Kings of the Gentiles Lord Over the People, Luke 22:25

Luke 22:25 (NASB95)

And He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over (κυριεύουσιν) them; and those who have authority over them are called ‘Benefactors.’

Death Does Not Lord over Christ, Romans 6:9

Romans 6:9 (NASB95)

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master (κυριεύει) over Him.

The Law of Marriage Lords Over As Long As They Live, Romans 7:1

Romans 7:1 (NASB95)

Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction (κυριεύει) over a person as long as he lives?

Christ is Lording Over Both the Living and the Dead, Romans 14:9

Romans 14:9 (NASB95)

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord (κυριεύσῃ) both of the dead and of the living.

Christ is the Lord of the Ones Lording, 1 Timothy 6:15

1 Timothy 6:15 (NASB95)

which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords (κυριευόντων),

They are Fellow Workers with Paul, 2 Corinthians 1:24

2 Corinthians 1:24 (NASB95)

… but we are co-workers of your joy; for you are in a state of standing by the faith.

Having Received the Gospel They Stand in Faith, 1 Corinthians 15:1

1 Corinthians 15:1 (NASB95)

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand (ἑστήκατε),

They Are His Joy, 2 Corinthians 2:1-4

Judging Not to Come Again in Grief, 2 Corinthians 2:1

2 Corinthians 2:1

And I have judged by myself this, not to come towards you again in grief.

Grief is a Deep Mental Anguish

In Child Birth the Woman is in Grief, John 16:21

John 16:21 NASB95

“Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

In Discipline, Hebrews 12:11

Hebrews 12:11 NASB95

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

When Other Speak Bad of Us for Doing Good, 1 Peter 2:19

1 Peter 2:19 NASB95

For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

Affects the Heart, Romans 9:2-3

Romans 9:2–3 NASB95

that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

One Who Gives is Not to Give Out of Grief, 2 Corinthians 9:7

2 Corinthians 9:7 (NASB95)

Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly (λύπης) or out from need (ἀνάγκης), for God loves a cheerful giver.

He Judged for Himself that He Would Not Come in Grief

If He Comes in Grief Who Will Make Him Glad, 2 Corinthians 2:2-3

2 Corinthians 2:2–3 (NASB95)

For if I grieve you also, who is the one making me glad except the one grieved out from me? And I wrote this same thing to you, in order that after coming I should not have grief from whom it is necessary for me to rejoice, being persuaded upon all of you that my joy is always from you.

Paul Wrote 1 Corinthians So that When He Came He Would Not Come Causing Grief

How Will They Bring Him Joy if He Brings Grief?

Out from Love, 2 Corinthians 2:4

2 Corinthians 2:4

For out from much tribulation and dismay of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not in order that you should be grieved, but the love, in order that you know that which I have abundantly unto you.

Paul Wrote Out of Tribulation and Dismay of Heart

Dismay Rather than Anguish

Dismay (συνοχή - συνέχω) Means “a holding together, constrain”, “distress”, or “dismay”

The shutting of the womb (varying readings and translations), Proverbs 30:16

Proverbs 30:16 NASB95

Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth that is never satisfied with water, And fire that never says, “Enough.”

A city besieged (varying readings and translations), Jeremiah 52:3

Jeremiah 52:3 NASB95

For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Holding one in Debt Until Payment

Compelling, holding a husband to pay back a wife he abandoned

The Dismay Among the Nations, Luke 21:25

Luke 21:25 NASB95

“There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,

Not to Cause the Grief, but Out From Love, 2 Corinthians 2:4

2 Corinthians 2:4

… not in order that you should be grieved, but the love, in order that you know that which I have abundantly unto you.

True Love Seeks the Best for the One Loved

Love Does not Rejoice in Unrighteousness, 1 Corinthians 13:6

1 Corinthians 13:6 NASB95

does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Approving of Someone’s Harmful Actions is Not Love

Not As Lording Over Your Faith

They Are His Joy

Showing True Love