2 Corinthians 2:9
For it was for this also that I wrote to you, that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in every thing.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
8I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him your love.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:12And it will be seen that I wrote to you, not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who received the wrong, only, but that your solicitude in respect to us might be known before God.
2 Corinthians 10:6And we are prepared, when your obedience shall be complete, to execute judgment on all the disobeying.
Philippians 2:22But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, so he labored with me in the gospel.
Philemon 1:21Being confident that thou wilt hearken to me, I have written to thee: and I know that thou wilt do more than 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 →