2 Corinthians 2:3

New American Bible - revised edition

And I wrote as I did so that when I came I might not be pained by those in whom I should have rejoiced, confident about all of you that my joy is that of all of you.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:21

Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a gentle spirit?

2 Corinthians 1:15

With this confidence I formerly intended to come to you so that you might receive a double favor,

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call upon God as witness, on my life, that it is to spare you that I have not yet gone to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been foolish. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I am in no way inferior to these “superapostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness they practiced.

2 Corinthians 13:10

I am writing this while I am away, so that when I come I may not have to be severe in virtue of the authority that the Lord has given me to build up and not to tear down.

2 Corinthians 2:9

For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So then even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong, or on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your concern for us might be made plain to you in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 7:16

I rejoice, because I have confidence in you in every respect.

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who encourages the downcast, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus,

2 Corinthians 7:8

For even if I saddened you by my letter, I do not regret it; and if I did regret it ([for] I see that that letter saddened you, if only for a while),

2 Corinthians 8:22

And with them we have sent our brother whom we often tested in many ways and found earnest, but who is now much more earnest because of his great confidence in you.

Galatians 5:10

I am confident of you in the Lord that you will not take a different view, and that the one who is troubling you will bear the condemnation, whoever he may be.

2 Thessalonians 3:4

We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you [both] are doing and will continue to do.

Philemon 1:21

With trust in your compliance I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.