Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Corinthians 6:13

Charles Spurgeon Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:13

1834–1892
Baptist
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:13

1834–1892
Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged." — 2 Corinthians 6:13 (ASV)

(I speak as to my children,) you also be enlarged.

There has been so much earnest labour to secure your conversion, so you also be in earnest to bring in others. Get large thoughts of God; be fully consecrated to him; spend and be spent for him. Follow a good example.

Paul could well urge them to that consecration when he had given himself so completely to the work of winning souls: You also be enlarged.

Now for a recompence in the same,

There must be some wages for this blessed work. The apostle wisely puts it on that footing, as if, surely, they were indebted to him, but the payment that he seeks is, of course, no personal gain to him; he only puts it in that form, but it is a gain to them.