2 Corinthians 7:12

for his cause that had done the wrong See 1 Corinthians 5:1.

nor for his cause that suffered wrong From this it has been inferred that the father of the offender was still alive.

but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you Many MSS., versions, and editors read that your care for us might appear to you. Whichever be the true reading, the alteration has either sprung from a desire to alter the passage into conformity with the supposed meaning of the Apostle, or from similarity of sound, in the case of a copyist writing from oral dictation. Either reading would make good sense, but that in the text is more probable for two reasons: (1) the Apostle has been all along insisting on the purity of his motives and on his unfeigned affection for his Corinthian converts (ch. 2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2); and (2) it seems rather unlikely that he should have wished the Corinthians to manifest their earnestness in his behalf unto themselves. See, however, on the other hand, ch. 2 Corinthians 2:9, and cf. Calvin, who says "St Paul congratulates the Corinthians on having learned at length by this test, how they were disposed towards him." The word here translated careis the same as that rendered carefulnessin the last verse.