2 Corinthians 2:4

New American Bible - revised edition

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you might be pained but that you might know the abundant love I have for you. The Offender.

Cross References

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

2 Corinthians 11:2

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

2 Corinthians 12:15

I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your sakes. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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.

Philippians 3:18

For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ.