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Text -- 2 Corinthians 2:1-13 (NET)
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2:1 So I made up my own mind not to pay you another painful visit .
2:2 For if I make you sad , who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad ?
2:3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice , since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours .
2:4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears , not to make you sad , but to let you know the love that I have especially for you .
2:5 But if anyone has caused sadness , he has not saddened me alone , but to some extent (not to exaggerate ) he has saddened all of you as well.
2:6 This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,
2:7 so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.
2:8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him .
2:9 For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything .
2:10 If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him– for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ ,
2:11 so that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes ).
2:12 Now when I arrived in Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ , even though the Lord had opened a door of opportunity for me ,
2:13 I had no relief in my spirit , because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and set out for Macedonia .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
CORINTHIANS, SECOND EPISTLE TO THE |
Love |
EXCOMMUNICATION |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
Church |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
Troas |
SORROW |
Titus |
Satan |
FORGIVENESS |
Corinthians, First Epistle to the |
Zeal |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 |
Macedonia |
TRIBULATION |
Agape |
ADVANTAGE |
ANGUISH |
REST |
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NET Notes: 2Co 2:1 Paul was not speaking absolutely about not making another visit, but meant he did not want to come to the Corinthians again until the conflict he ment...
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NET Notes: 2Co 2:2 Or “to cheer me up.” L&N 25.131 translates this “For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up?”
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NET Notes: 2Co 2:3 So that when I came. Regarding this still future visit by Paul, see 2 Cor 12:14; 13:1.
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NET Notes: 2Co 2:7 Grk “comfort him, lest somehow such a person be swallowed up by excessive grief,” an idiom for a person being so overcome with grief as to...
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NET Notes: 2Co 2:9 Grk “to know the proof of you,” that is, to know if the Corinthians’ obedience to Paul as an apostle was genuine (L&N 72.7).
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