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2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

KJV

Ἔκρινα δὲ ἐμαυτῷ τοῦτο, τὸ μὴ πάλιν ἐν λύπῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐλθεῖν·

Greek NT

Statui autem hoc ipsum apud me, ne iterum in tristitia venirem ad vos.

Vulgate

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

ASV

But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κρίνω
krino
verb · 114×
λύπη
lupe
noun · 16×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πάλιν
palin
adverb · 141×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἐμαυτοῦ
emautou
reflexive_pronoun · 37×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: γὰρ | WH/NIV: γὰρ | Treg/RP: δὲ
  • γὰρSBLGNT
  • γὰρWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • δὲTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may
  • 1Cor 4:21 — What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
  • 2Cor 1:23 — Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
  • 2Cor 1:24 — Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
  • 2Cor 12:20 — For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings
  • 2Cor 13:10 — Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.