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2 Corinthians 2:5
2 Corinthians 2:5 is verse 5 of 2 Corinthians chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.
King James Version
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
World English Bible
But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
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2 Corinthians 2:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be saddened by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.
4 For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
5 Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.
6 The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
7 So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 17:25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
1 Corinthians 5:3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
1 Corinthians 5:4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
1 Corinthians 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 5:12What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
1 Corinthians 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
Galatians 5:10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
Galatians 4:12I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.