2 Corinthians 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you grief but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:12

So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong but in order that your zeal for us might be made known to you before God.

Psalm 119:136

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

Philippians 3:18

For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.

2 Corinthians 12:15

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

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:9

I wrote for this reason: to test you and to know whether you are obedient in everything.