2 Corinthians 7:14; Even So Our Boasting

2 Corinthians 7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

The Apostle Paul commended the church in Corinth for their faith in God. He was stating truthfully for there was spiritual fruit that he has seen and he testified with thanksgiving before God and men to the honour of His praise.

Likewise, he commended the church in Thessalonica when he wrote in 1 Thessalonians 1:6-10 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. 9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Titus proved the Apostle Paul’s commendation of the Corinth church when he visited the church to witness for himself the vibrancy and spiritual progress. He was able to return a note of affirmation concerning the genuine faith and piety of the believers there. As such, this “boasting” was not of prideful arrogance rather an affirmation of the true spiritual state of the church.

I love thy church, O God!

Her walls before thee stand,

Dear as the apple of thine eye,

And graven on thy hand.

Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)¹

Amen.

¹Draper’s Book of Quotations for the Christian World.