Boasting and Not Ashamed 2 Corinthians 7:14

Paul the apostle told the church members in Corinth he and his companions, “were comforted in your comfort: yes, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.”. In chapter seven and verse fourteen of Second Corinthians, Paul shared with the church members about how if he, “boasted any thing to” Titus of the church members, he was “not ashamed” where we read:

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 verse begins, “For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed;” Paul began with the word, “for” which means “even as, indeed, no doubt, seeing then, verily and therefore” “if I have boasted” which means “whether Paul gloried, vaunted, rejoiced or joyed in”“any thing” which means “in whatsoever and any” “to him” or “of Titus” “of you” which refers to “the church members”, “I am not ashamed” which means “Paul was not dishonored, disgraced, put to shame, confounded or repulsed“. Paul was not “dishonored or put to shame” by anything he shared with Titus concerning the church in Corinth.

The verse continues, “but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.” Paul added the word, “but” which is a disassociation conjunction that means what is about to be written takes precedence over what was just stated “as we spoke” or “like Paul and his companions uttered, proclaimed and declared” “all things” which refers to “in whatsoever and any” “to you” or “toward the church members” “in truth” or “what is true appertaining to God and the duties of man which is moral and religious truth”, “even so” or “also and indeed” “our boasting” which means “Paul and his companions' vaunting, rejoicing or joy”, “which I made” or “that Paul fashioned and formed” “before Titus” which refers to “in front of and in advance of Titus” “is found” or “has become, happened, come upon the stage and appeared in history as” “a truth” which means “what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man which is moral and religious truth”. Paul shared the “truth” with the church in Corinth, and when he “boasted about it” before Titus, what he stated was the “truth”.

When we consider these words of Paul, we see how important it was for he and his companions to be found in the “truth”. Both the reports to Titus concerning the church in Corinth, and the reports Paul shared about the church were “true”. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man comes to the Father but by me” (John 14:6), and those who are wise know the “truth” of these words, submit to them and have others know what is reported of them is “truth” as well. This type of “boasting” needs not that any should be “ashamed”.

Next time Paul tells the church members,“if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then,

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