2 Corinthians 7:12

WEB

¹²So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

KJV

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.

BSB

¹²So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.

FBV

¹²^[+] So when I wrote to you, I wasn't writing about who did the wrong or who was wronged, but to show you how devoted you are to us in God's sight.

Extra References

2 Corinthians 2:9

⁹For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

2 Corinthians 7:8

⁸For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.

2 Corinthians 2:17

¹⁷For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:28

²⁸Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

2 Corinthians 2:3-4

³And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you. ⁴For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

2 Corinthians 11:11

¹¹Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

1 Timothy 3:5

⁵(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

1 Corinthians 5:1-2

¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. ²You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.