CHAPTER VII.

ON PURITY.-GODLY SORROW.

Ought not the merciful promises of God to induce us to abstain from all impurity?

1. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

What is the effect of godly sorrow ?

10. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

CHAPTER VIII.

EXHORTATION TO LIBERALITY.

By what argument does Paul stir up the Corinthians to liberality?

7. As ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us; see that ye abound in this grace also:

9. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through his poverty might be made rich.

Is liberality to be estimated by the amount of the gift, or the disposition of the giver?

12. If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not. according to that he hath not.

CHAPTER IX.

ON GIVING WITH CHEERFULNESS AND LIBERALITY.

Is it not essential to the value of a gift that it be cheerfully dispensed?

6. He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly ; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

7. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give: not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.

What quotation does the apostle introduce to illustrate this?

9. It is written: He hath dispersed abroad : he hath given to the poor; his righteousness remaineth for ever.

Is not benevolence to our fellow creatures a means of giving honour to God.

12. The administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God.

CHAPTER X.

THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE.

In what consists the efficacy of the weapons of the Christian warfare?

3. Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh :

4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;

5. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God; and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

CHAPTER XI.

PAUL VINDICATES HIS CONDUCT TOWARDS THE CORINTHIANS,

How does Paul express his fatherly concern for the Corinthians; and his fear lest they should be beguiled from the simplicity of the Gospel.

2. I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

3. But I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your

minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Had the Corinthians any cause to complain that the apostle made his mission burdensome to them?

9. When I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man : for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you ;' and so will I keep myself.

Did not Paul endure many sufferings and trials, in the course of his labours for the help of the churches?

24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one.

25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, and once was I stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have been in the deep.

26. In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils amongst false brethren ;

27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

28. Beside those things that are without, that hich cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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CHAPTER XII.

PAUL'S BUFFETINGS.-HIS FEARS RESPECTING THE

CORINTHIANS.

What was the answer Paul received when he besought the Lord for deliverance from the buffetings of Satan?

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9. My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Did not the state of the Corinthian church occasion Paul to express his fears concerning them with great plainness ?

20. I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

21. And lest when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many, which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.