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Text -- 2 Corinthians 2:3-17 (NET)

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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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2:14 But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place. 2:15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing2:16 to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? 2:17 For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Macedonia a Roman province north of Greece which included 10 Roman colonies (IBD),citizens of the province of Macedonia
 · Satan a person, male (evil angelic),an angel that has rebelled against God
 · Titus a Christian Greek man who accompanied Paul and was left in Crete to settle the churches there
 · Troas a town in northwest Asia Minor


Dictionary Themes and Topics: CORINTHIANS, SECOND EPISTLE TO THE | Love | EXCOMMUNICATION | Church | BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY | PAULINE THEOLOGY | Zeal | Titus | Minister | Troas | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 | Satan | Preaching | SORROW | SMELL | SAVOR | TRIUMPH | ARMY | THESSALONIANS, SECOND EPISTLE TO THE | Macedonia | more
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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.

NET Notes: 2Co 2:4 Or “the love that I have in great measure for you.”

NET Notes: 2Co 2:5 Or “(not to say too much)”; Grk “(not to burden you [with words]).”

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...

NET Notes: 2Co 2:8 Or “I urge you to show that your love for him is real.”

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).

NET Notes: 2Co 2:11 Or “be taken advantage of.”

NET Notes: 2Co 2:12 Grk “a door”; the phrase ἀνοίγω θύραν (anoigw quran, “to open a door”)...

NET Notes: 2Co 2:13 Since this refers to the outset of a journey, the aorist ἐξῆλθον (exhlqon) is taken ingressively.

NET Notes: 2Co 2:14 Or “who reveals.”

NET Notes: 2Co 2:16 These things refer to the things Paul is doing in his apostolic ministry.

NET Notes: 2Co 2:17 Or “persons of pure motives.”

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