2 Corinthians 2:3

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

So I wrote as I did, for fear that, if I had come, I should have been pained by those who ought to have made me glad; for I felt sure that it was true of you all that my joy was in every case yours also.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:21

What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

2 Corinthians 1:15

With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled--

2 Corinthians 1:23

But, as my life shall answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been "playing the fool!" It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent Apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

2 Corinthians 13:10

This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me--and gave me for building up and not for pulling down.

2 Corinthians 2:9

I had this further object, also, in what I wrote--to ascertain whether you might be relied upon to be obedient in everything.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us.

2 Corinthians 7:16

I am glad that I can feel perfect confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 7:6

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

2 Corinthians 7:8

For, though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I were inclined to regret it--for I see that my letter did cause you sorrow though only for a time--

2 Corinthians 8:22

We are also sending with them another of our Brothers, whose earnestness we have many a time proved in many ways, and whom we now find made even more earnest by his great confidence in you.

Galatians 5:10

I, through my union with the Lord, am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

2 Thessalonians 3:4

Yes, and the confidence that our union with the Lord enables us to place in you leads us to believe that you are doing, and will do, what we direct you.

Philemon 1:21

Even as I write, I have such confidence in your compliance with my wishes, that I am sure that you will do even more than I am asking.