1 Corinthians 12:26; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 11:29; Romans 12:15
For if I make you sorry - “If when I should come among you, I should be called on to inflict sorrow by punishing your offending brethren by an ac...
2 Corinthians 1:23 to 2 Corinthians 2:4 . Paul now states the real and sufficient reason for his apparent vacillation. He had already paid a visit...
if . Greek. ei. App-118. make... sorry . grieve. Greek. lupeo , trenel. "grieve", or "cause grief" in verses: 2Co 2:2, 2 Corinthians 2:4 , a....
2. For if I make you sorry Here we have the proof of the foregoing statement. No one willingly occasions sorrow to himself. Now Paul says, t...
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? For if I make you sorry - Should he have come an...
For if I make you sorry, &c.— "For if I were to do any thing that would be a trouble to you, whom I so dearly love, nothing but a sense of duty...
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? For. Proof that he shrinks from causing...
(b) 2:8-13. The Object and Results of the severe Letter The Apostle reminds them that to produce this godly sorrow was the object of the letter...
Who is he then that maketh me glad? — The force of the “for,” with which the verse opens, lies below the surface. He had wished to avoid a visit th...
Chapter 5 A PASTOR'S HEART. 2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-4 (R.V) WHEN Paul came to the end of the paragraph in which he defends...
Tender-hearted and Forgiving 2 Corinthians 1:23-24 ; 2 Corinthians 2:1-11 In these opening words Paul evidently refers to the sin mentioned in...
What a remarkable light is thrown on his first letter by his declaration that he wrote it "out of much affliction and anguish of heart," and "with ma...
(1) But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2) For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me gl...
For if I make you sorry ,.... That is, should he come among them, and be the means of fresh grief and sorrow: who is he then that maketh me glad ?...
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? Ver. 2. But the same which is made, &c....
But I , &c. The apostle proceeds with his apology, begun in the preceding chapter, for delaying his visit to the Corinthians, and signifies that...
These first few verses are a continuation of chapter 1. Paul had purposed that he would not come to the Corinthians "in heaviness," and for this reas...
Paul Expresses His Affection. A. D. 57. 1 Bu...
When I am there, I have no refreshment or joy in that part of the citizens who are pagans, all my joy is in that part which are Christians, and const...
‘But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow. For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad but he w...
CRITICAL NOTES ( N.B .— The paragraph really begins at 2 Corinthians 1:23 .) 2 Corinthians 1:1 . Determined .—As in 1 Corinthians 2:2 . For...
2 Corinthians 2:1 . But I determined that I would not come again to you in heaviness; but rather wait till the late scandal should subside. The of...
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? Gladness for sadness I. Self-improvement i...
EXPOSITION Continuation of his reasons for not coming to them direct from Ephesus ( 2 Corinthians 2:1-47 ). Their treatment of the incestuous of...
Paul's Apostolic Kindness. Paul continues his explanation:
For if I make you sorry, who is he, then, that maketh me glad but the same which is made sorry by me?
For if I grieve you, who is he that cheereth me, but he that is grieved by me — That is, I cannot be comforted myself till his grief is removed.
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?