2 Corinthians 2:3

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν τοῦτο αὐτὸ, ἵνα μὴ, ἐλθὼν λύπην ἔχω ἀφʼ ὧν ἔδει με χαίρειν· πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ πάντας ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ἡ ἐμὴ χαρὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἐστιν.

Transliteration

And egrapsa to you touto auto, hina not, elthōn lypēn I echō from whom edei me to chairein; pepoithōs upon all you, that the my chara of all you estin.

Grammar Details

• *egrapsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I wrote
• *touto auto*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative neuter singular with intensive - this very thing
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular - having come
• *lypēn*: accusative feminine singular - sorrow
• *echō*: present active subjunctive, 1st person singular - I might have
• *edei*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - it was necessary
• *chairein*: present active infinitive - to rejoice
• *pepoithōs*: perfect active participle, masculine nominative singular - having trusted/confident
• *chara*: nominative feminine singular - joy
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is

Word Meanings

• *lypēn*: sorrow/grief/pain
• *chairein*: to rejoice/be glad
• *pepoithōs*: having trusted/being confident/relying
• *chara*: joy/gladness/delight

Referenced Verses

• Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
• 2 Cor 8:22 : 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.
• Phlm 1:21 : 21 Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
• 2 Cor 12:11 : 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.
• 2 Cor 12:21-13:2 : 21 lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed. 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established. 2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
• 2 Thess 3:4 : 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command.
• 1 Cor 4:21-5:13 : 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness? 1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ: 8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; 10 not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat. 12 For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
• 2 Cor 1:15 : 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
• 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• 2 Cor 7:8 : 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),
• 2 Cor 7:12 : 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.