2 Corinthians 2:1
And I decided this to myself, not to come again to you in sorrow,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
In Context
2for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?
Cross References
Acts 11:29and the disciples, according as anyone was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministry to the brothers dwelling in Judea,
Acts 15:37And Barnabas resolved to take with [them] John called Mark,
1 Corinthians 4:21What do you wish? Will I come to you with a rod, or in love, also with a spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 1:15and in this confidence I was intending to come to you before, that you might have a second favor,
2 Corinthians 2:4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.
2 Corinthians 12:20for I fear lest, having come, I may not find you such as I wish, and I may be found by you such as you do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, slanders, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:1
In this chapter the apostle proceeds in the account of the reasons why he did not come to Corinth, ver. 1-4 . Then he writes concerning the incestuous person who lay under censure; and gives direction for restoring him, together with the reasons for their so doing ( ver. 5-11 ), and afterwards informs them of his labours and success in preaching the gospel in several places, ver. 12-17 . Read the whole commentary →