◄ 2 Corinthians 2:2 ►
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Good News Translation
For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up? Only the very persons I had made sad.

New Revised Standard Version
For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

Contemporary English Version
If I make you feel bad, who would be left to cheer me up, except the people I had made to feel bad?

New American Bible
For if I inflict pain upon you, then who is there to cheer me except the one pained by me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

2 Corinthians 1:14 As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

Context
Reaffirm Your Love
1But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. 2For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me? 3And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.…
Cross References
Matthew 19:22
And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great possessions.

2 Corinthians 7:8
For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent. And if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful,

2 Corinthians 2:1
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