2 Corinthians 1:6
1:6 But if we are afflicted,
1 it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:17
1:17 Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I?
2 Or do I make my plans
3 according to mere human standards
4 so that I would be saying
5 both “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
2 Corinthians 2:10
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 Corinthians 4:18--5:1
4:18 because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
Living by Faith, Not by Sight
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, 6 is dismantled, 7 we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 7:14
7:14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you,
8 but just as everything we said to you was true,
9 so our boasting to Titus about you
10 has proved true as well.
2 Corinthians 8:10
8:10 So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you
11 made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,
2 Corinthians 10:2
10:2 now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that (I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving
12 according to human standards.
13
2 Corinthians 10:8
10:8 For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us
14 for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.
15
2 Corinthians 12:11
The Signs of an Apostle
12:11 I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison 16 to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 13:4
13:4 For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.
1 tn Or “are troubled.”
2 tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative answer. This is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ question “did I?” at the end of the sentence.
3 tn Grk “the things that I plan, do I plan (them).”
4 tn Grk “according to the flesh.”
5 tn Grk “so that with me there should be.”
3 sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.
4 tn Or “destroyed.”
4 tn Grk “I have not been put to shame”; the words “by you” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
5 tn Grk “just as we spoke everything to you in truth.”
6 tn The words “about you” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
5 tn Grk “who.”
6 tn Grk “consider us as walking.”
7 tn Grk “according to the flesh.”
7 tn The word “us” is not in the Greek text but is supplied. Indirect objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context, and must be supplied for the modern English reader.
8 tn Grk “I will not be put to shame,” “I will not be ashamed.” The words “of doing so” are supplied to clarify for the reader that Paul will not be ashamed of boasting somewhat more about the authority the Lord gave him (beginning of v. 8).
8 tn Or “I am in no way inferior.”