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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Corinthians 2:9 Catholic Bible: I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_corinthians/2-9.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_corinthians/2-9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_corinthians/2-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_corinthians/1.htm">2 Corinthians</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_corinthians/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-8.htm" title="2 Corinthians 2:8">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 2:9 <a href="../2_corinthians/2-10.htm" title="2 Corinthians 2:10">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_corinthians/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_corinthians/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I wrote for this reason: to test you and to know whether you are obedient in everything.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_corinthians/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I also wrote because I wanted to test you and find out if you would follow my instructions. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_corinthians/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.</p><p class="hdg">that.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/7-12.htm">2 Corinthians 7:12-15</a> Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/8-24.htm">2 Corinthians 8:24</a> Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the evidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/16-4.htm">Exodus 16:4</a> And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2,16</a> And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/13-3.htm">Deuteronomy 13:3</a> Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/2-22.htm">Philippians 2:22</a> Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.</p><p class="hdg">whether.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/7-15.htm">2 Corinthians 7:15</a> And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/10-6.htm">2 Corinthians 10:6</a> And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/2-12.htm">Philippians 2:12</a> Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_thessalonians/3-14.htm">2 Thessalonians 3:14</a> And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philemon/1-21.htm">Philemon 1:21</a> Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_corinthians/2.htm">Reaffirm Your Love</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity towards him. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl">For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.</span> <span class="reftext">10</span>And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-3.htm">2 Corinthians 2:3</a></span><br />And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-4.htm">2 Corinthians 2:4</a></span><br />For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-8.htm">2 Corinthians 2:8</a></span><br />Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity towards him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/7-12.htm">2 Corinthians 7:12</a></span><br />Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that did the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our carefulness that we have for you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/7-15.htm">2 Corinthians 7:15</a></span><br />And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/8-2.htm">2 Corinthians 8:2</a></span><br />That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/10-6.htm">2 Corinthians 10:6</a></span><br />And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../philippians/2-22.htm">Philippians 2:22</a></span><br />Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_corinthians/2-8.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/romans/7-23.htm">Discover</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-13.htm">End</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-6.htm">Experience</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-1.htm">Letter</a> <a href="/romans/15-18.htm">Obedient</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-29.htm">Object</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/16-1.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/2-9.htm">Prepared</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-15.htm">Proof</a> <a 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