2 Corinthians 2:4

A Conservative Version

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:12

And so then although I wrote to you, it was not because of the man who did wrong, nor because of the man who was wronged, but in order to reveal to you your eagerness for us in the sight of God.

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

Philippians 3:18

For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ,

2 Corinthians 12:15

And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:9

For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.