2 Corinthians 13:1 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-6

In these verses observe, I. The apostle threatens to be severe against obstinate sinners when he should come to Corinth, having now sent to them a first and second epistle, with proper admonitions and exhortations, in order to reform what was amiss among them. Concerning this we may notice, 1. The caution with which he proceeded in his censures: he was not hasty in using severity, but gave a first and second admonition. So some understand his words (2 Cor. 13:1): This is the third time I am... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

13 For the third time I am coming to you. Everything will be established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. To those who have already sinned and to all others I have already said, and I now say, just as I said it when I was with you on my second visit, now I say it while I am absent, that if I come to you again, I will not spare you. I will take decisive action because you are looking for a proof that Christ really is speaking in me, Christ who is not weak where you are concerned, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you ,.... Or "am ready to come to you", as the Alexandrian copy reads, as in 2 Corinthians 12:14 . Though he had been as yet but once at Corinth, and is to be reckoned and accounted for, either after this manner; he had been "once" with them when he first preached the Gospel to them, and was the means of their conversion, and laid, the foundation of their church state, of which there is some account in Acts 18:1 he came to them a "second" time, by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you - These words are nearly the same with those 2 Corinthians 12:14 ; and probably refer to the purpose which he had twice before formed of seeing them. But the latter clause seems to attach a different meaning to the passage; at least so it has been understood by some learned men. Schoettgen thus interprets the whole: the first coming of the apostle to Corinth was when he personally visited them, and there founded the Christian Church. By his... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1

Verse 1 1.This will be the third. He goes on to reprove still farther the insolence of those of whom he had been speaking, some of whom living in profligacy and licentiousness, and others, carrying on contentions and strifes among themselves, cared nothing for his reproof. For his discourse did not apply to the entire body of the Church, but to certain diseased and half-rotten members of it. Hence he now, with greater freedom, uses sharpness, because he has to do with particular individuals,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you . I have thrice formed the intention, though the second time I had to forego my plan ( 2 Corinthians 1:15-17 ). In the mouth of two or three witnesses. The quotation is from Deuteronomy 19:15 . It has been explained as a reference to examinations which he intended to hold on his arrival at Corinth. It is much more probable that St. Paul is representing his separate visits as separate attestations to the truths which he preaches. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-4

About to visit the Corinthians "the third time." he informs them very distinctly what they had to expect. In the words of the Old Testament Law, he says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." The strength of his resolution to punish impenitent offenders is declared—"I will not spare." A crisis was at hand, and he was fully prepared to meet the issue. He refers to the main source of all the trouble, viz. the disparagement of his office as Christ's apostle.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

Paul's epistolary farewell to the Corinthians. "This is the third time I am coming to you, etc. This chapter concludes Paul's letters to the Corinthians. There is no evidence that he wrote a word to them after this. The letters had evidently been a task to him. To a man of his tender nature no duty could be more painful than that of censure and reproach. Nothing but a sense of loyalty to the holiness of Christianity could have urged him to it. no doubt he felt a burden rolled from his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time ... - see the note on 2 Corinthians 12:14. For an interesting view of this passage, see Paley’s Horae Paulinae on this Epistle, No. 11: It is evident that Paul had been to Corinth but once before this, but he had resolved to go before a second time, but had been disappointed.In the mouth of two or three witnesses ... - This was what the Law of Moses required; Deuteronomy 20:16; see the note on John 8:17; compare Matthew 18:16. But in regard to its application here,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 13:1

2 Corinthians 13:1. This is the third time I am coming to you Or, as some understand it, am preparing to come: see on 2 Corinthians 12:14. For in the Acts of the Apostles no mention is made of his being at Corinth more than once before this second epistle was written. It must be observed, however, that that history by no means contains all the apostle’s transactions: and it is not improbable that, as Macknight supposes, during the eighteen months which passed from St. Paul’s first coming to... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-6

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 13:1-14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 13:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 13:1

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