2 Corinthians 2:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ I decided this for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

² Paul and Barnabas had an intense (harsh) dispute and debate with them. They concluded that Paul, Barnabas, and others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders to settle this question.

³⁷ Barnabas decided to take John, whose surname was Mark, with them.

²⁹ The disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers in Judea.

² I decided not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and his death on the torture stake.

²¹ What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

³ I am not there with you in person. But I am with you in spirit. I have already judged the man who did this.

¹⁵ In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit. ¹⁶ To pass by you to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea. ¹⁷ When I planned this was I unfaithful? Or in other things do I perform according to the flesh. With me should there be a yes or a no?

²³ But I call God for a witness against me. To spare you I did not come to Corinth.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.

⁵ When we came to Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side, fighting on the outside and fears on the inside. ⁶ Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus. ⁷ This is not by his coming only, but also by the comfort he brought from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me so that I rejoiced yet more. ⁸ For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it (for I see that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season),

²⁰ I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct. ²¹ I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power that the Lord gave me to enlightenment and not to destruction.

¹² When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, give diligence to come to me at Nicopolis where I will winter.