2 Corinthians 2:3

Paul wrote a hard letter instead of visiting, so that when he came he would find joy rather than sorrow. He trusted that his joy and theirs were shared.

Cross-references · 11

• Gal 5:10I 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.
• Phlm 1:21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
• 2 Cor 8:22We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
• 2 Th 3:4We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
• 2 Cor 7:12So 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.
• 2 Cor 1:15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
• 2 Cor 7:8For 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.
• 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
• 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• 1 Cor 4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
• 2 Cor 12:11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

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