2 Corinthians 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 5:12-13 : 12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."
  • Gal 4:12 : 12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
  • Prov 17:25 : 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
  • 1 Cor 5:1-5 : 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife. 2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you. 3 For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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  • 2 Cor 2:1-4
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    1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

    2 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?

    3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

    4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

  • 2 Cor 2:6-7
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    6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

    7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

  • 2 Cor 7:7-9
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    7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

    8 For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

    9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

  • 2 Cor 7:11-13
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    11 For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

    12 So although I wrote to 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 revealed in you in the sight of God.

    13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

  • Phil 2:26-28
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    26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

    27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

    28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • Rom 9:2
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    2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • Gal 5:10
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    10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

  • 2 Cor 7:2-4
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    2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

    3 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • Phlm 1:18-20
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    18 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.

    19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

    20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 5:2
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    2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

  • 2 Cor 12:16-17
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    16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

    17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

  • Phil 2:1
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    1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

  • 2 Cor 2:9-10
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    9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

    10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

  • Lam 3:32
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    32 For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

  • Phlm 1:7-8
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    7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 1:4-6
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    4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

    5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

    6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

  • 2 Cor 11:9
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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

  • Phil 1:16
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    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  • Gal 4:15
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    15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Phil 2:20
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    20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

  • 2 Cor 11:29
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    29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

  • Col 1:24
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    24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

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    2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

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    12 If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

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    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,