2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I grieve you, then who is the one cheering me except the one I have caused to have agmat nefesh?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

1For I decided this in myself: not again to come to you in agmat nefesh (grief). + 2:1 1C 4:21; 2C 12:21

3And I wrote the iggeret as I did, so that when I came, I should not have agmat nefesh from those who should have brought me simcha; for I have confidence about you all, that my simcha would be the simcha of all of you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:26And when one evar (member) has tza'ar (pain and suffering), all the evarim (members) have tza'ar with it; or one evar has the aliyah of kibbud, all the evarim has simcha with it.

2 Corinthians 7:8Because if indeed I caused you agmat nefesh (grief) by the iggeret, I do not regret it, though I did regret it, but I see that that iggeret grieved you only briefly. + 7:8 2C 2:4

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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