2 Corinthians 2:3

Weymouth NT

And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:21

Which shall it be? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?

2 Corinthians 1:15

It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended to visit you before going elsewhere –so that you might receive a twofold proof of God's favour–

2 Corinthians 1:23

But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 12:11

It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality, of which they have been guilty.

2 Corinthians 13:10

For this reason I write thus while absent, that when present I may not have to act severely in the exercise of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

2 Corinthians 2:9

For in writing to you I have also this object in view–to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.

2 Corinthians 7:12

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 7:16

I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 7:6

But He who comforts the depressed –even God– comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,

2 Corinthians 7:8

For if I gave you pain by that letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it then. I see that that letter, even though for a time it gave you pain, had a salutary effect.

2 Corinthians 8:22

And we send with them our brother, of whose zeal we have had frequent proof in many matters, and who is now more zealous than ever through the strong confidence which he has in you.

Galatians 5:10

For my part I have strong confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt my view of the matter. But the man –be he who he may– who is troubling you, will have to bear the full weight of the judgement to be pronounced on him.

2 Thessalonians 3:4

And we have confidence in the Lord in regard to you that you are doing, and will do, what we command.

Philemon 1:21

I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I know you will do even more than I say.