2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it was necessary [for] me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,
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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
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 7:6but He who is comforting the cast-down—God—He comforted us in the coming of Titus;
2 Corinthians 7:12If, then, I also wrote to you—not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who suffered wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being revealed to you before God—
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool—boasting; you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you, for I was behind the very chiefest apostles in nothing—even if I am nothing.
Galatians 5:10I have confidence in regard to you in the LORD that you will not be otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
Philemon 1:21I wrote to you having been confident in your obedience, having known that you will also do above what I may say;
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 →