2 Corinthians 2:2

2 Corinthians 2:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
• New International Version (NIV)For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved?
• English Standard Version (ESV)For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?
• New King James Version (NKJV)For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

Context of 2 Corinthians 2:2

1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me? 3And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them by 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 ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

2 Corinthians 2:2 word by word

εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ λυπῶ ὑμᾶς, καὶ τίς ὁ εὐφραίνων με εἰ μὴ ὁ λυπούμενος ἐξ ἐμοῦ;Read the interlinear

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• ifεἰei · ifG1487
• Iἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• makeλυπέωlupeō · to grieveG3076
• youὑμᾶςhumas · youG5209
• whoτίςtis · which?G5101
• heἐστίesti · he isG2076
• thenκαίkai · andG2532
• makethεὐφραίνωeuphrainō · to celebrateG2165
• meμέme · meG3165
• butεἰ μήei mē · exceptG1508
• byἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• meἐμοῦemou · of meG1700

Cross-references for 2 Corinthians 2:2

• 2 Corinthians 1:14As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Corinthians 11:29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is led into sin, and I am not incensed?
• Romans 12:15Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
• 1 Corinthians 12:26And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 2:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2For if I make you sorry - Should he have come and used his apostolical authority, in inflicting punishment upon the transgressors, this would have been a common cause of distress. And though he might expect that the sound part of the Church would be a cause of consolation to him, yet as all would be overwhelmed with trouble at the punishment of the transgressors, he could not rejoice to see those whom he loved in distress.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For if I make you sorry - “If when I should come among you, I should be called on to inflict sorrow by punishing your offending brethren by an act of severe discipline as soon as I came, who would there be to give me comfort but those very persons whom I had affected with grief? How little prepared would they be to make me happy, and to comfort me, amidst the deep sorrow which I should have caused by an act of severe discipline. After such an act - an act…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2Paul had changed his travel plan. In 1 Corinthians 16:5, he hoped to visit Corinth after going through Macedonia. He had promised to visit Corinth earlier (perhaps in his “severe letter,” 2 Corinthians 7:8) on his way north. Now, he had to return to the original plan, and the earlier visit, which would have brought a double blessing, would not happen after all.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. For--proof that he shrinks from causing them sorrow ("heaviness"). if I--The "I" is emphatic. Some detractor may say that this (2Co 2:1) is not my reason for not coming as I proposed; since I showed no scruple in causing "heaviness," or sorrow, in my Epistle (the first Epistle to the Corinthians). But I answer, If I be the one to cause you sorrow, it is not that I have any pleasure in doing so. Nay, my object was that he "who was made sorry by me"…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Corinthians 2:2

• Church
• Love

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Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings