Study it in the app“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you would be grieved but so that you would know the love that I have especially for you.”
Forγὰρout ofἐκmuchπολλῆςafflictionθλίψεωςandκαὶanguishσυνοχῆςof heartκαρδίαςI wroteἔγραψαto youὑμῖνthroughδιὰmanyπολλῶνtears,δακρύωνnotοὐχso thatἵναyou would be grievedλυπηθῆτεbutἀλλὰso thatἵναyou would knowγνῶτεthe loveτὴν ἀγάπηνthatἣνI haveἔχωespeciallyπερισσοτέρωςforεἰςyou.ὑμᾶς
great
Of great size or strength, like a crowd or a lament.
Where else “pollēs” appearstrouble, affliction
Affliction, distress, pressure.
Where else “thlipseōs” appearsdistress
Distress, anguish, a tight spot.
Where else “synochēs” appearsheart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
Where else “kardias” appearswrite
To set down words in writing: letters, laws, books.
Where else “egrapsa” appearstear
Tear.
Where else “dakryōn” appearsgrieve
Make sad; be sad, grieve.
Where else “lypēthēte” appearsknow
To be truly acquainted with someone, or grasp something fully.
Where else “gnōte” appearslove
Love that gives itself, seeking the other's good, like God's.
Where else “agapēn” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echō” appearsmuch more, especially
Much more, all the more, to a greater degree.
Where else “perissoterōs” appearsIt can be understood as a letter other than 1 Corinthians, which has not been preserved.
3And I wrote this very thing so that when I came I would not have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, being confident about all of you that my joy is the joy of all of you.
4 · This verse (above)
5But if anyone has caused grief, he has grieved not me but in some measure —so that I do not lay it on too heavily— all of you.
