2 Corinthians 2:2

2:2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad ¹  but the one I caused to be sad?

2 Corinthians 5:5

5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose ²  is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. ³ 

2 Corinthians 7:6

7:6 But God, who encourages ⁴  the downhearted, encouraged ⁵  us by the arrival of Titus.

2 Corinthians 8:15

8:15 as it is written: “The one who gathered ⁶  much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” ⁷ 

2 Corinthians 9:6

9:6 My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously ⁸  will also reap generously.

2 Corinthians 10:18

10:18 For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.

¹ tn 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?”

² tn Grk “for this very thing.”

³ tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).

³ tn Or “comforts,” “consoles.”

⁴ tn Or “comforted,” “consoled.”

⁴ tn The word “gathered” is not in the Greek text, but is implied (so also for the second occurrence of the word later in the verse).

⁵ sn A quotation from Exod 16:18.

⁵ tn Or “bountifully”; so also in the next occurrence in the verse.