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 11:9

11:9 When ²  I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. ³  I ⁴  kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

2 Corinthians 12:20

12:20 For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me ⁵  not what you wish. I am afraid that ⁶  somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, ⁷  slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 13:7

13:7 Now we pray to God that you may not do anything wrong, not so that we may appear to have passed the test, ⁸  but so that you may do what is right ⁹  even if we may appear to have failed the test. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Or “are troubled.”

² tn Grk “you, and when.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.

³ tn If the participle ἐλθόντες (elqonte") is taken as temporal rather than adjectival, the translation would be, “for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, fully supplied my needs” (similar to NASB).

⁴ tn Grk “needs, and I kept.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.

³ tn Grk “and I will be found by you.” The passive construction has been converted to an active one in the translation.

⁴ tn The words “I am afraid that” are not repeated in the Greek text, but are needed for clarity.

⁵ tn Or “intense anger, hostility.”

⁴ tn Or “that we may appear to be approved.”

⁵ tn Or “what is good.”

⁶ tn Or “even if we appear disapproved.”