Good morning. Just a few
verses before, Paul had been saying he was not vacillating about coming to see
them. To spare you, I did not come again to Corinth. I determined this for my
own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again. It sounds like that on
a previous visit to Corinth there had been sorrow connected with the occasion.
My Bible says that if so, it is an unknown visit. For if I cause you sorrow,
who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? This is the very
thing I wrote you, so that when I come, I would not have sorrow from those who
ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the
joy of you all. There is debate as to whether the “l wrote you” Paul was
talking about was First Corinthians, or a separate letter that we don’t have a
copy of. We will continue this next time. Father continue to go with the reader
and his/her family, giving them wisdom and understanding in all that they
encounter.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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