2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

In Context

1But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

3And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:26And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it; or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

2 Corinthians 7:8For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent; and if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful;

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 →

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