2 Corinthians 7:4 Commentary and Bible Study

You can think confidence if you wish. Great is my confidence towards you. He knows they are converted truly. They have gone wrong in certain respects, but they have humbled themselves and put it right, and he is very confident in their standing and he remembers them and loves them.‘Great is my glorying of you.’ That is to say, I speak of you to others – The Corinthians? They are embracing the word of God, and they are even correcting their wrongs. ‘I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.’ He means the persecution he had endured, the difficulties and privations in getting to them, preaching to them; the resistance he had overcome, all the costs, the attacks he had had upon himself by the Jews and the tribulations. When he saw the stand of the Corinthians, he was filled with comfort.