2 Corinthians 7:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So although I did write to you [as I did], it was not for the sake and because of the one who did [the] wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered [the] wrong, but in order that you might realize before God [that your readiness to accept our authority revealed] how zealously you do care for us.

American Standard Version (1901)

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

Common English Bible

So although I wrote to you, it wasn’t for the sake of the one who did wrong, or for the sake of the one who was wronged, but to show you your own enthusiasm for us in the sight of God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so, though I wrote to you, it was not because of him who caused the injury, nor because of him who suffered from it, but so as to manifest our solicitude, which we have for you before God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that I did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it; but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you

2 Corinthians 7:12 Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:11

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

2 Corinthians 11:28

Beside those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:9

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

2 Corinthians 7:8

For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it, though I did regret; for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season.

1 Timothy 3:5

(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)