2 Corinthians 7:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

2 Corinthians 7:12 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 2:9
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
2 Corinthians 11:28
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
2 Corinthians 2:3-4
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. …
1 Timothy 3:5
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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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 caus…

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

(vv. 12)

12. though I wrote unto you--“making you sorry with my letter” (2Co 7:8). his cause that suffered wrong--the father of the incestuous person who had his father’s wife (1Co 5:1). The father, thus it seems, was alive. that our care for you, &c.--Some of the oldest manuscripts read thus, “That YOUR care for us might be made manifest unto you,” &c. But the words, “unto you,” thus, would be rather obsc…