Devine Scripture

2 Corinthians 2:3

2 Corinthians chapter 2 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Context

v.2For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

v.3This passage

v.4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:12

    So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:8

    For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret it (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

  • Philemon 1:21

    Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:22

    And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:11

    I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 1 Corinthians 4:21

    What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?