2 Coríntios 2:4

4 Porque em muita tribulação e angústia de coração vos escrevi, com muitas lágrimas, não para que vos entristecêsseis, mas para que conhecêsseis o amor que abundantemente vos tenho.

2 Coríntios 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 2:4

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart
Being greatly pressed in his spirit, and grieved at his heart, for the abominable iniquities among them, which they seemed to take no notice of, and to be unconcerned about, yea, rather to be puffed up with:

I wrote to you with many tears;
as signs and expressions of, and by which were vented, the inward anguish and distress of his soul; and the letter he sent to them in some measure bore witness to it: which was written,

not that you should be grieved;
that is, not merely for the sake of grieving of them, in which he took no pleasure; not but that the apostle designed and desired to affect their minds with a holy grief and godly sorrow for sin, and hereby their amendment; but his chief view was, next to their spiritual good, and God's glory, to express the greatness of his love to them: as he says,

that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you;
as his love was very vehement towards them, he was desirous they should know it, and how exceeding abundant it was; and that it was even greater towards them, than to others; and he thought he could not give a greater proof and evidence of it, than by reproving them faithfully, and that sharply too, as the necessity of the case required.

2 Coríntios 2:4 In-Context

2 Porque, se eu vos entristeço, quem é, pois, o que me alegra, senão aquele que por mim é entristecido?

3 E escrevi isto mesmo, para que, chegando, eu não tenha tristeza da parte dos que deveriam alegrar-me; confiando em vós todos, que a minha alegria é a de todos vós.

4 Porque em muita tribulação e angústia de coração vos escrevi, com muitas lágrimas, não para que vos entristecêsseis, mas para que conhecêsseis o amor que abundantemente vos tenho.

5 Ora, se alguém tem causado tristeza, não me tem contristado a mim, mas em parte (para não ser por demais severo) a todos vós.

6 Basta a esse tal esta repreensão feita pela maioria.