12Wherefore, 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.
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For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. …
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)In these verses the apostle endeavours to comfort the Corinthians, upon whom his admonitions had had such good effect. And in order thereto, 1. He tells them he had a good design in his former epistle, which might be thought severe, 2 Cor. 7:12. It was not chiefly for his cause that did the wrong , not only for his benefit, much less merely that he should be punished; nor was it merely for his cau…
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