4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
Open rebuke is better than secret love. …
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. …
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)In these verses, 1. The apostle proceeds in giving an account of the reason why he did not come to Corinth, as was expected; namely, because he was unwilling to grieve them, or be grieved by them, 2 Cor. 2:1 , 2 . He had determined not to come to them in heaviness , which yet he would have done had he come and found scandal among them not duly animadverted upon: this would have been cause of grief…
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