2 Corinthians 1:16

1:16 and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back¹ to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

2 Corinthians 1:18

1:18 But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

2 Corinthians 2:2

2:2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad² but the one I caused to be sad?

2 Corinthians 2:5

2:5 But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate)³ he has saddened all of you as well.

2 Corinthians 2:7

2:7 so that now instead⁴ you should rather forgive and comfort him.⁵ This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.⁶

2 Corinthians 3:1

A Living Letter

3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?⁷

2 Corinthians 6:1

God’s Suffering Servants

6:1 Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.⁸

2 Corinthians 8:6

8:6 Thus⁹ we urged¹⁰ Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work,¹¹ so also he should complete this act of kindness¹² for you.

2 Corinthians 8:23

8:23 If there is any question¹³ about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers¹⁴ of the churches, a glory to Christ.

2 Corinthians 9:14

9:14 And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.¹⁵

2 Corinthians 11:6

11:6 And even if I am unskilled¹⁶ in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

2 Corinthians 12:15

12:15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives!¹⁷ If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

2 Corinthians 13:1

Paul’s Third Visit to Corinth

13:1 This is the third time I am coming to visit¹⁸ you. By the testimony¹⁹ of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.²⁰

¹tn Grk “come again.”

²tn 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?”

³tn Or “(not to say too much)”; Grk “(not to burden you [with words]).”

⁴tn Grk “so that on the other hand.”

⁵tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text but is supplied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted and must be supplied from the context.

⁶tn 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 despair or give up completely (L&N 25.285). In this context of excessive grief or regret for past sins, “overwhelmed” is a good translation since contemporary English idiom speaks of someone “overwhelmed by grief.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the difficulty of expressing a negative purpose/result clause in English, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁵tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply (“No, we do not”) which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ at the end, “do we?”

⁶tn Or “receive the grace of God uselessly.”

⁷tn A new sentence was started here in the translation and the word “thus” was supplied to indicate that it expresses the result of the previous clause.

⁸tn Or “we exhorted.”

⁹tn The words “this work” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted and must be supplied from the context.

¹⁰tn Grk “this grace.”

⁸tn Grk “If concerning Titus” (εἴτε ὑπὲρ Τίτου, eite Juper Titou); the Greek sentence opens with an ellipsis which must be supplied: If [there is any question] about Titus.”

⁹tn Grk “apostles.”

⁹tn Grk “the extraordinary grace of God to you”; the point is that God has given or shown grace to the Corinthians.

¹⁰sn Unskilled in speaking means not professionally trained as a rhetorician.

¹¹tn Grk “souls.”

¹²tn The word “visit” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

¹³tn Grk “By the mouth.”

¹⁴sn A quotation from Deut 19:15 (also quoted in Matt 18:16; 1 Tim 5:19).