For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 2:2 in context
2 Corinthians 2:1–5
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But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
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For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
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And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
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But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
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