2 Corinthians 2:1
BUT I prescribed to myself this rule, not to come again to you with sorrow.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
In Context
2For if I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorrowful by me?
Cross References
Acts 11:29Then the disciples, as everyman had ability, determined every individual of them to send a sum to be distributed among the brethren who dwelt in Judea:
Acts 15:37Now Barnabas had resolved to take with him John, whose surname is Mark.
1 Corinthians 4:21What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 1:15And in this confidence I was intending to come unto you a second time, that ye might receive a second blessing;
2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:1
In this chapter the apostle proceeds in the account of the reasons why he did not come to Corinth, ver. 1-4 . Then he writes concerning the incestuous person who lay under censure; and gives direction for restoring him, together with the reasons for their so doing ( ver. 5-11 ), and afterwards informs them of his labours and success in preaching the gospel in several places, ver. 12-17 . Read the whole commentary →