2 Corinthians 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

2 Corinthians 2:9 —

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2 Corinthians 10:6
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Philemon 1:21
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
Philippians 2:22
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
2 Corinthians 7:12-15
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. …
Deuteronomy 13:3
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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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. 9)

9. For--Additional reason why they should restore the offender, namely, as a “proof” of their obedience “in all things”; now in love, as previously in punishing (2Co 2:6), at the apostle’s desire. Besides his other reasons for deferring his visit, he had the further view, though, perhaps, unperceived by them, of making an experiment of their fidelity. This accounts for his deferring to give, in hi…