Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
Not for that - i:e., Not that. "Faith" is here emphatic. He had "dominion" in discipline; but in matters of, "faith" he was only a 'fellow-helper of their joy' (namely, in believing: Philippians 1:25). The Greek is, 'Not that we lord it over your faith.' This he adds to soften the magisterial tone of 2 Corinthians 1:23 His desire is to cause them not sorrow (2 Corinthians 2:1-2), but "joy." "By faith (Romans 11:20) ye stand:" therefore it is that I do not lord over but "help" your faith, the source of all true "joy" (Romans 15:13).