2 Corinthians 2:4
For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you.
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Jeremiah 13:15Hear and pay close attention. Do not choose to lift yourself up, for the Lord has spoken.
Romans 9:2because the sadness within me is great, and there is a continuous sorrow in my heart.
2 Corinthians 7:12And so, though I wrote to you, it was not because of him who caused the injury, nor because of him who suffered from it, but so as to manifest our solicitude, which we have for you before God.
2 Corinthians 12:15And so, very willingly, I will spend and exhaust myself for the sake of your souls, loving you more, while being loved less.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:2-5
Paul Expresses His Affection. ( a. d. 57.) 1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be… Read the whole commentary →