2 Corinthians 2:3

New English Translation

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:21

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

2 Corinthians 1:15

And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us,

2 Corinthians 1:23

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

2 Corinthians 13:10

Because of this I am writing these things while absent, so that when I arrive I may not have to deal harshly with you by using my authority – the Lord gave it to me for building up, not for tearing down!

2 Corinthians 2:9

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are 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 wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.

2 Corinthians 7:16

I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

2 Corinthians 7:6

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

2 Corinthians 7:8

For even if I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret having written it (even though I did regret it, for I see that my letter made you sad, though only for a short time).

2 Corinthians 8:22

And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.

Galatians 5:10

I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

2 Thessalonians 3:4

And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.

Philemon 1:21

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.