2 Corinthians 2:9
For in writing to you I have also this object in view--to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
8I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 7:12Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 10:6while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.
Philippians 2:22But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
Philemon 1:21I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I know you will do even 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 →