2 Corinthians 2:4

Weymouth NT

For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you, but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with love for you.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy. For I have betrothed you to Christ to present you to Him like a faithful bride to her one husband.

2 Corinthians 12:15

And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

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.

Philippians 3:18

For there are many whom I have often described to you, and I now even with tears describe them, as being enemies to the Cross of Christ.