Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
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Gill's Exposition
Not for that we have dominion,.... Since he had spoke of "sparing" of them, lest it should be thought that he and his fellow ministers assumed to themselves any tyrannical power over the churches, or…
Barnes' Notes
Not for that we have dominion ... - The sense of this passage I take to be this: “The course which we have pursued has been chosen not because we wish to lord it over your faith, to control your…
Adam Clarke
Not for that we have dominion over your faith - I will not come to exercise my apostolical authority in punishing them who have acted sinfully and disorderly; for this would be to several of you a…
The apostle here vindicates himself from the imputation of levity and inconstancy, in that he did not hold his purpose of coming to them at Corinth. His adversaries there sought all occasions to…
Cambridge Bible
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy Ben lordis ofWiclif, and so the other versions until the Rhemish, which characteristically renders overrule. St Paul here…
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