"For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor 2:2).
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
However much our spirits might shrink beneath the cross, naturally adverse to its bitterness, they will expand in equal measure with spiritual joy.
And this will give rise to thanksgiving, which cannot exist without joy—thanksgiving and praise of our Lord can only spring from a glad and joyful heart.
John Owen. Mortification of Sin in Believers.
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