2nd Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 6 Holy Bible
in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
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In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,
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in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in [the] Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
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By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
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in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
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in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - By pureness; rather, in pureness, as the preposition is the same. He now gives six instances of special gifts and virtues. The "pureness" is not only "chastity," but absolute sincerity (1 John 3:3; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:10). By knowledge. The knowledge is the true knowledge of the gospel in its fulness (Ephesians 3:4). In his depth of insight into the truth St. Paul was specially gifted. The word gnosis had not yet acquired the fatal connotations which afterwards discredited it. By long suffering (2 Timothy 3:10; 2 Timothy 4:2). The patient endurance of insults, of which St. Paul shows a practical specimen in this Epistle, and still more in Philippians 1:15-18. By kindness. "Love suffereth long, and is kind" (1 Corinthians 13:4); "Long suffering, kindness" (Galatians 5:22). By the Holy Ghost. To the special gift of the Spirit St. Paul attributed all his success (1 Thessalonians 1:5; Romans 15:18, 19). By love unfeigned; which is the surest fruit of the Spirit, and the best of all spiritual gifts (2 Corinthians 12:15; 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 13; Romans 12:9, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) By pureness . . .--The word may possibly mean "purity of motive" in its widest sense, but the use of the corresponding adjective in 2Corinthians 11:2; 1Timothy 5:22; Titus 2:3; 1Peter 3:2, and, indeed, its general sense elsewhere, is decisive in favour of "purity from sensual sin"--personal chastity. In the general state of morals throughout the empire, and especially in writing to such a city as Corinth, it was natural to dwell on this aspect of the Christian character. (Comp. 1Corinthians 7:7.) The "knowledge" is obviously not that of earthly things, but of the mysteries of God (Ephesians 3:4). In "kindness" we trace the consciousness of an effort to reproduce the graciousness which he looked on as a characteristic attribute of God and Christ (Ephesians 2:7; Titus 3:4). In the "Holy Ghost" we may see a reference both to spiritual gifts, such as those of tongues and prophecy (1Corinthians 14:18-19), and to the impulses and promptings in which he traced the general guidance of the Spirit (Acts 16:6-7). "Love unfeigned" (i.e., without hypocrisy) presents the same combination as in Romans 12:9 ("without dissimulation" in the English version). . . .
