2 Corinthians 2:1
But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
In Context
2For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
Cross References
Acts 11:29And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister [to them];
Acts 15:37And Barnabas proposed to take with [them] John also, called Mark;
1 Corinthians 4:21What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 1:15And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;
2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:1
In this chapter the apostle proceeds in the account of the reasons why he did not come to Corinth, ver. 1-4 . Then he writes concerning the incestuous person who lay under censure; and gives direction for restoring him, together with the reasons for their so doing ( ver. 5-11 ), and afterwards informs them of his labours and success in preaching the gospel in several places, ver. 12-17 . Read the whole commentary →