2 Corinthians 2:1
For my own sake, as well, I decided not to pay you another painful visit.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
In Context
2If it is I who cause you pain, why, who is there to cheer me, except the person whom I am paining?
Cross References
Acts 11:29So the disciples, without exception, determined, in proportion to their means, to send something to help the followers living in Judea.
Acts 15:37Barnabas wished to take with them John, whose other name was Mark;
1 Corinthians 4:21What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
2 Corinthians 1:15With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled –
2 Corinthians 2:4I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you.
2 Corinthians 12:20for I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill feeling, rivalry, slandering, backbiting, self-assertion, and disorder.
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 →