2 Corinthians 2:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

2 Corinthians 2:5 —

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1 Corinthians 5:12-13
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? …
Galatians 5:10
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Galatians 4:12
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
1 Corinthians 5:1-5
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. …
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-11)

In these verses the apostle treats concerning the incestuous person who had been excommunicated, which seems to be one principal cause of his writing this epistle. Here observe, 1. He tells them that the crime of that person had grieved him in part; and that he was grieved also with a part of them, who, notwithstanding this scandal had been found among them, were puffed up and had not mourned, 1 C…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. grief ... grieved--Translate as before, “sorrow ... made sorry.” The “any” is a delicate way of referring to the incestuous person. not ... me, but in part--He has grieved me only in part (compare 2Co 1:14; Ro 11:25), that is, I am not the sole party aggrieved; most of you, also, were aggrieved. that I may not overcharge--that I may not unduly lay the weight of the charge on you all, which I sh…