2 Corinthians 7:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So although {G2532} 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄρα, εἰ καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν, οὐχ εἵνεκεν τοῦ ἀδικήσαντος, οὐδὲ εἵνεκεν τοῦ ἀδικηθέντος, ἀλλʼ εἵνεκεν τοῦ φανερωθῆναι τὴν σπουδὴν ἡμῶν τὴν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

Ara, if kai egrapsa to you, not heineken tou adikēsantos, oude heineken tou adikēthentos, all' heineken tou phanerōthēnai tēn spoudēn of us tēn hyper you pros you enōpion tou Theou.

Grammar Details

*ara*: inferential particle - so/then/consequently
*ei kai*: concessive conditional - even if/although
*egrapsa*: aorist indicative, 1st singular - I wrote
*hymin*: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - to you
*ouch*: negative particle - not
*heineken*: preposition + genitive - for the sake of
*tou adikēsantos*: genitive, masculine, singular with article, aorist active participle - the one who did wrong
*oude*: negative conjunction - nor/and not
*tou adikēthentos*: genitive, masculine, singular with article, aorist passive participle - the one who was wronged
*all*: strong adversative conjunction - but
*tou phanerōthēnai*: genitive, articular aorist passive infinitive - the being made manifest
*tēn spoudēn*: accusative, feminine, singular with article - the earnestness
*hēmōn*: genitive, 1st person plural pronoun - of us/our
*tēn hyper*: accusative, feminine, singular with article + preposition - the on behalf of
*hymōn*: genitive, 2nd person plural pronoun - of you
*pros*: preposition + accusative - toward
*hymas*: accusative, 2nd person plural pronoun - you
*enōpion*: preposition + genitive - before/in the sight of
*tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular with article - of God

Word Meanings

*ara*: so/then/consequently
*egrapsa*: wrote/inscribed/composed
*heineken*: for the sake of/because of/on account of
*adikēsantos*: one who did wrong/wrongdoer/offender
*adikēthentos*: one who was wronged/victim
*phanerōthēnai*: to be made manifest/to be revealed
*spoudēn*: earnestness/diligence/eagerness
*hyper*: on behalf of/for/concerning
*enōpion*: before/in the sight of/in the presence of

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 2:9 : 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
2 Cor 7:8 : 8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though {G2532} I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me {G2596} daily, anxiety for all the churches.
1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1 Cor 5:1-2 : 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.
2 Cor 2:3-4 : 3 And I wrote this very thing, {G5213} 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. 4 For 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 that I have more abundantly unto you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

2 Cor 7:11
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11For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
2 Cor 12:13-14
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13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2 Cor 7:7-9
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7and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
8For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though {G2532} I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
9I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.
2 Cor 2:2-5
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2For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but {G3361} he that is made sorry by me?
3And I wrote this very thing, {G5213} 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.
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 that I have more abundantly unto you.
5But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
2 Cor 7:13-16
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13Therefore {G5124} we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.
14For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
15And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
16I rejoice {G3754} that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
2 Cor 7:2-4
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2Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
3I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.
4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
2 Cor 2:7-10
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7so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.
9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for {G1063} what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes {G5209} [have I] [forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;
2 Cor 12:17-19
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17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
18I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did {G5100} Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?
19{G3825} Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
2 Cor 5:12
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12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
Phlm 1:7-8
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7For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
2 Cor 13:10
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10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
2 Cor 1:12
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12For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Cor 8:13
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13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;
2 Cor 11:7
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7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
2 Cor 11:11-12
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11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein {G1722} they glory, they may be found even as we.
2 Cor 10:8-9
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8For though {G5037} I should glory {G2532} somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave {G2254} for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
2 Cor 8:20-21
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20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:
21for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
1 Thess 3:7
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7for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:
2 Cor 8:24
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24Show ye therefore unto them {G2532} in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
Phlm 1:18
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18But if he hath wronged thee at all, or oweth [thee] aught, put that to mine account;
1 Cor 6:7
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7Nay, already it is altogether {G3303} a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why {G91} not rather take wrong? why {G650} not rather be defrauded?
Gal 5:10
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10I 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 1:23
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23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
2 Cor 9:1
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1For as touching {G3303} the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2 Cor 13:7
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7Now we pray to God that ye {G3361} do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.
2 Cor 8:8
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8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Phil 1:7
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7even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
Phil 4:10
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10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein {G1909} ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.
2 Thess 3:9
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9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.
2 Cor 8:16
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16But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.