2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2For yf I make you sorye who is it that shuld make me glad but the same which is made sory by me?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:21What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes?
2 Corinthians 7:6Neverthelesse God that comfortith the abiecte comforted vs at the commynge of Titus.
2 Corinthians 7:12Wherfore though I wrote vnto you I did it not for his cause that did hurte nether for his cause that was hurte: but that oure good mynde whych we have towarde you in the sight of god myght appere vnto you.
2 Corinthians 12:11I am made a fole in bostynge my silfe. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have bene comeded of you. For in nothinge was I inferior vnto the chefe apostels Though I be nothynge
Galatians 5:10I have trust towarde you in the Lorde that ye wyll be none other wyse mynded. He that troubleth you shall beare his iudgement what soever he be.
Philemon 1:21Trustinge in thyne obediece I wrote vnto the knowynge that thou wilt do more then I saye for.
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 →