2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I grieve you, who shall refresh me, but he whom I had grieved?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

1But I have determined this in myself, that I will not with sorrow again come to you.

3And I have written to you this very, lest when I come they grieve me, they who ought to refresh me. But I confide in you, that my joy is that of all of you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:26as that when one member shall be diseased, all may suffer; and if one member be glorified, all the members may be glorified.

2 Corinthians 7:8For though I grieved you in an epistle, I repent me not, though I did repent. For I perceive how that epistle, though for an hour, did make you sorry;

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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