Make Room for Truth
Channel: South Austin church of Christ
Date: 2022-10-31

Buy Truth and Do Not Sell It

2 Corinthians 7:2
Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.

    χωρέω
        I. make room for another, give way, withdraw
            give way to one, make way for him, retire before him
        III. have room for a thing, hold, contain, frequently of measures
            to be capable of
    John 8:37
    I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
    2 Peter 3:8–9
    Do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach [have space for] repentance.

    ἀδικέω
    Acts 7:24, 26–27
    And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. ... And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?' But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
    Galatians 4:12, 15–16
    Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. ... What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

    φθείρω
    1 Corinthians 3:17
    If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
    1 Corinthians 15:33
    Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

    πλεονεκτέω
    have more than one's due or claim more than one's due, mostly in bad sense, to be greedy, be grasping
        2 also, gain some advantage or have some advantage
        3 have a larger share of or claim a larger share of than others
    II have the advantage over or gain the advantage over; gain at the expense of
        2 overreach, defraud
    
    2 Corinthians 2:10–11
    Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
    2 Corinthians 12:16–18
    But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit. Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?