Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
Paul was distressed and anguished by concern for the spiritual condition of the Corinthian church. He had sent Titus to Corinth to prepare the way for a later visit of his own. His distress was intensified by bodily weakness that hindered his work, which God did not remove. The coming of Titus comforted Paul in his distress. Titus brought a reassuring report that the Corinthian believers had accepted Paul's counsel, repented, and changed their lives.
God comforted Paul through the arrival of fellow workers, whose presence gave him fresh courage amid opposition and encouraged him in his work. He intends gospel coworkers to be closely united in Christian love and to cheer one another. The verse teaches that God comforts those who are cast down.
Christ is that comforter who receives the sorrows of those who come to him and brings consolation to the brokenhearted, and because he has experienced human suffering and temptation he can be touched by human weakness. God is greatly willing to help and strengthen everyone who looks to him in trusting prayer; to those who seek it he gives consolation, and the earnest, persistent soul finds him as one who hears and answers prayer. He is God over all the earth, exercising unwearied and watchful care over the whole human family so that nothing escapes, granting audience every moment to those who lay their wants before him while also ministering every moment to the needs of thousands who live upon his gifts without grateful praise. Those comforted by him know him personally as their Saviour, and their experience grows as they share with others what they have received.
Paul was distressed and anguished by concern for the spiritual condition of the Corinthian church. He had sent Titus to Corinth to prepare the way for a later visit of his own. His distress was intensified by bodily weakness that hindered his work, which God did not remove. The coming of Titus comforted Paul in his distress. Titus brought a reassuring report that the Corinthian believers had accepted Paul's counsel, repented, and changed their lives.
God comforted Paul through the arrival of fellow workers, whose presence gave him fresh courage amid opposition and encouraged him in his work. He intends gospel coworkers to be closely united in Christian love and to cheer one another. The verse teaches that God comforts those who are cast down.
Christ is that comforter who receives the sorrows of those who come to him and brings consolation to the brokenhearted, and because he has experienced human suffering and temptation he can be touched by human weakness. God is greatly willing to help and strengthen everyone who looks to him in trusting prayer; to those who seek it he gives consolation, and the earnest, persistent soul finds him as one who hears and answers prayer. He is God over all the earth, exercising unwearied and watchful care over the whole human family so that nothing escapes, granting audience every moment to those who lay their wants before him while also ministering every moment to the needs of thousands who live upon his gifts without grateful praise. Those comforted by him know him personally as their Saviour, and their experience grows as they share with others what they have received.