Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
Though I wrote unto you - `making you sorry' (2 Corinthians 7:8).
Not for - i:e., not so much for: this was subordinate to my main aim, your edification.
His cause that suffered wrong - the father whose wife the incestuous son had. The father, therefore, was alive.
That our care for you ... So B, Vulgate. But C Delta read 'that YOUR care for US might be made manifest (so Greek) unto you,' etc. But the words, 'unto you,' thus would be obscure. Alford explains it: 'He wrote in order to bring out their zeal on his behalf (i:e., to obey his command), and make it manifest to themselves in God's sight.' But 2 Corinthians 2:4, "I wrote ... that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you," accords with the object for which he wrote according to the English version reading here. His writing was not so much for the sake of the individual offender, or the offended, but from his 'earnest care for the welfare of the Church.