The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
God, as the Father of Jesus Christ, knows that Paul is not lying about the experience he has just described. The verse belongs to a chapter that provides much instruction. In that setting, the chapter shows that people who see things with merely human sight make very grave mistakes when they take up a work God has not appointed but has condemned. That condemned work is the work of criticizing others, taking the judge's place by climbing upon the judgment seat, and pronouncing sentence on them.
For their own spiritual advancement, such people would do far better to look well to their own shortcomings and defects of character by watchfully examining their own hearts. They would do far better to remove from themselves the beam of faultfinding, evil suspicion and surmising, evil talk and speaking, false witness, hatred, and accusation against fellow believers and the brethren.
God, as the Father of Jesus Christ, knows that Paul is not lying about the experience he has just described. The verse belongs to a chapter that provides much instruction. In that setting, the chapter shows that people who see things with merely human sight make very grave mistakes when they take up a work God has not appointed but has condemned. That condemned work is the work of criticizing others, taking the judge's place by climbing upon the judgment seat, and pronouncing sentence on them.
For their own spiritual advancement, such people would do far better to look well to their own shortcomings and defects of character by watchfully examining their own hearts. They would do far better to remove from themselves the beam of faultfinding, evil suspicion and surmising, evil talk and speaking, false witness, hatred, and accusation against fellow believers and the brethren.