2 Corinthians 2:3
I wrote as I did in order that when I came to you I might not be hurt by those who should have made me rejoice. I have confidence about all of you that my joy is the same joy you all have.
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2If I caused you pain, who could cheer me up but the very one who was hurt by me?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod or with love and in a spirit of gentleness?
2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who comforts the discouraged, comforted us by the arrival of Titus.
2 Corinthians 7:12Although I wrote to you, I did not write for the sake of the wrongdoer, nor for the one who suffered the wrong, but so that your good will toward us should be made known to you in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool! You forced me to this, for I should have been praised by you. For I was not at all inferior to the so-called super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
Galatians 5:10I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will pay the penalty, whoever he is.
Philemon 1:21Confident about your obedience, I am writing to you. I know that you will do even more than I ask.
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 →