2 Corinthians 1:12
Here is what we take pride in, and our conscience confirms it: in the world at large, and still more with you, we have behaved with a holiness and sincerity that come from God, guided not by merely human wisdom but by the grace of God.
Treated in 8 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Humility ·
Humility and Sin cites 2 Corinthians 1:12
…sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.” (2 Corinthians 1:12). This is not an ideal or an aspiration, it is an appeal to what his actual life had…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites 2 Cor. 1:12
…1:4. The same apostle is very often, in his epistles, expressing the affection of joy, 2 Cor. 1:12 and chap. 7:7, and ver. 9. 16. Phil. 1:4, and chap. 2:12, and chap 3:3. Col. 1:24. 1…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 2 Cor. 1:12
…as, Rom. 1:9, “God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son.” 2 Cor. 1:12, “For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that—by the grace of God…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
The First Fruits of the Spirit cites 2 Cor. 1:12
…fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, they have had their conversation in the world” (2 Cor. 1:12). 3. But because this scripture has been so frequently misunderstood, and that in so…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
The Witness of our own Spirit cites 2 Cor. 1:12
…with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.” 2 Cor. 1:12 1. Such is the voice of every true believer in Christ, so long as he abides in faith and…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
On Conscience cites 2 Cor. 1:12
Sermon 105 “On Conscience” “For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience.” 2 Cor. 1:12. 1. How few words are there in the world more common than this, Conscience! It is in…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Assurance cites 2 Cor 1:12
…make him hear the voice of joy. The Spirit is the Comforter, that seals up assurance. 2 Cor 1:12. Therefore make much of the Spirit, do not grieve it. As Noah opened the ark to receive…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 17 — The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled cites 2 Cor. 1:12
…of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward,” (2 Cor. 1:12), means not to call for the scrutiny of God, but compelled by the calumnies of the wicked…