2 Corinzi 7:3

3 Io non lo dico a vostra condannazione; perciocchè già innanzi ho detto che voi siete ne’ cuori nostri, da morire insieme, e da vivere insieme.

2 Corinzi 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 7:3

I speak not this to condemn you
Referring either to the exhortations before given, to have no sinful conversation with unbelievers, and to cleanse themselves from all impurity, external and internal; and to go on in a course of holiness, in the fear of God, to the end of life; or to the account just given of himself and fellow ministers; and his sense is this, the exhortations I have given must not be so understood, as though I charged and accused you with keeping company with unbelievers, or as though you were not concerned for purity of life and conversation; or when I remove the above mentioned things from myself and others, I mean not to lay them upon you, as if I thought that you had wronged, corrupted, or defrauded any; when I clear myself and others, I do not design to accuse or condemn you; my view is only to the false apostles, who have done these things, when we have not, and therefore we have the best claim to your affections:

for I have said before, you are in our hearts;
you are inscribed on our hearts, engraven there, "ye are our epistle written in our hearts", ( 2 Corinthians 3:2 ) ye are not straitened in us, ( 2 Corinthians 6:12 ) you have a place and room enough in our affections, which are strong towards you, insomuch that it is our desire and resolution

to die and live with you;
or together: neither death nor life shall separate our love, or destroy our friendship; there is nothing we more desire than to live with you; and should there be any occasion for it, could freely die with you, and for you.

2 Corinzi 7:3 In-Context

1 Avendo adunque queste promesse, cari miei, purghiamoci d’ogni contaminazione di carne, e di spirito, compiendo la nostra santificazione nel timor di Dio.

2 DATECI luogo in voi; noi non abbiam fatto torto ad alcuno, non abbiamo corrotto alcuno, non abbiamo frodato alcuno.

3 Io non lo dico a vostra condannazione; perciocchè già innanzi ho detto che voi siete ne’ cuori nostri, da morire insieme, e da vivere insieme.

4 Io ho gran libertà di parlare inverso voi, io ho molto di che gloriarmi di voi; io son ripieno di consolazione, io soprabbondo di letizia in tutta la nostra afflizione.

5 Perciocchè, essendo noi venuti in Macedonia, la nostra carne non ha avuta requie alcuna; ma siamo stati afflitti in ogni maniera: combattimenti di fuori, spaventi di dentro.