Jean Ann Williams | Author

“Beside the thinges which are outwarde, I [Paul] am combred [come] dayly, and haue the care of all the Churches. Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not? If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities” (2 Corinthians 11:28-30 1587 Geneva Version). Father, even in […]

“In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my [Paul] own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren: In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in […]

“Of the Jews five times did I [Paul] receive forty stripes [whippings] save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I suffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea” (2 Corinthians 11:24, 25 1587 Geneva Version). Father, when You called on Paul as […]

“I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as […]

“For ye suffer [as] fooles gladly, because that yee are wise. For ye suffer, euen if a man bring you into bondage, if a man deuoure [devour] you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himselfe, if a man smite you on the face” (2 Corinthians 11:19, 20 1587 Geneva Version). Father, […]

“I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe […]

“Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles. And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you wee haue beene made manifest to the vttermost, in all things” (2 Corinthians 11: 5, 6 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul was against You, and […]

“But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corrupt from the simplicitie that is in Christ. For if he that commeth, preacheth another Iesus whome we haue not preached: or if yee receiue another spirite whome ye haue not receiued: either another Gospell, which yee haue […]

“Let such one thinke this, that such as wee are in woorde by letters, when we are absent, such wil we be also in deede, when we are present. For wee dare not make our selues of the nomber, or to compare our selues to them, which praise themselues: but they vnderstand not that they […]

“This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters. For the letters, sayeth hee, are sore and strong, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speache is of no value” (2 Corinthians 10:9, 10 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul wrote powerfully rather than he spoke. For some […]