Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation That is why I wrote that letter to you--I did not want to come to you and be made sad by the very people who should make me glad. For I am convinced that when I am happy, then all of you are happy too. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And 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. I wrote. 1 Corinthians 4:21 What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness? 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father's wife. *etc: lest. 2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed. 2 Corinthians 13:1,2 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand. . . . I ought. 2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing. having. 2 Corinthians 1:15 And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace: 2 Corinthians 7:6 But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus. 2 Corinthians 8:22 And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent: with much confidence in you, Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be. Philemon 1:21 Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. Context Reaffirm Your Love…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. 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.… Cross References 1 Corinthians 4:21 What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness? 2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand. 2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things. 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 7:12 Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you 2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you. 2 Corinthians 12:21 Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed. 2 Corinthians 13:10 Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the Lord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction. Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be. 2 Thessalonians 3:4 And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things which we command, you both do and will do. Philemon 1:21 Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. 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