For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?(2 Corinthians 2:2)

And 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.(2 Corinthians 2:3)

For 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.(2 Corinthians 2:4)

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.(2 Corinthians 2:6)

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.(2 Corinthians 2:7)

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.(2 Corinthians 2:8)

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2 Corinthians 2:5 - Cross Reference

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. (Proverbs 17:25)

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. (Galatians 4:12)

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? (1 Corinthians 5:12)

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. (Galatians 5:10)

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (1 Corinthians 5:1)