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2 Corinthians 2:5 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 2 · verse 5
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.2 Corinthians 2:5 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 2:5 in context
3And 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.
4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- grieflypeōto make sorrowful, to affect with sadness, cause grief, to throw into sorrow, to grieve…G3076 →
- partmerosa part, a part due or assigned to one, lot, destiny, one of the constituent parts of a…G3313 →
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In these verses the apostle treats concerning the incestuous person who had been excommunicated, which seems to be one principal cause of his writing this epistle. Here observe, 1. He tells them that the crime of that person had grieved him in part;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-11