2 Corinthians 7:12

Weymouth NT

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.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:11

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.

2 Corinthians 11:28

And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily–my anxiety for all the Churches.

2 Corinthians 2:17

We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.

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 7:8

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.

1 Timothy 3:5

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)