2 Corinthians 2:9
for unto this also I wrote, in order that I may know your approval, if you are obedient in all things.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8Therefore I exhort you to stir up your divine love for him:
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:12Since then indeed I wrote to you, not on account of the one having done the wrong, nor on account of the one having suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal, which is in our behalf to you before God, might be made manifest.
2 Corinthians 10:6and being ready to avenge every disobedience, when your obedience may be complete.
Philippians 2:22But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.
Philemon 1:21Having confidence in your obedience I have written to you, knowing that you will do even more than those things which I say.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:6-12
Case of the Incestuous Person. ( a. d. 57.) 5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye… Read the whole commentary →