2 Corinthians 2:4

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. ¹ 

2 Corinthians 2:17

2:17 For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, ²  but we are speaking in Christ before ³  God as persons of sincerity, ⁴  as persons sent from God.

2 Corinthians 11:11

11:11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ⁵ 

2 Corinthians 11:28

11:28 Apart from other things, ⁶  there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern ⁷  for all the churches.

2 Corinthians 11:1

Paul and His Opponents

11:1 I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

2 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 Not that we are adequate ⁸  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ⁹  is from God,

¹ tn Or “the love that I have in great measure for you.”

² tn The participle καπηλεύοντες (kaphleuonte") refers to those engaged in retail business, but with the negative connotations of deceptiveness and greed – “to peddle for profit,” “to huckster” (L&N 57.202). In the translation a noun form (“hucksters”) has been used in combination with the English verb “peddle…for profit” to convey the negative connotations of this term.

³ tn Or “in the presence of.”

⁴ tn Or “persons of pure motives.”

⁵ tn Grk “God knows!” The words “I do” are supplied for clarity. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

⁶ sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.

⁷ tn “Anxious concern,” so translated in L&N 25.224.

⁸ tn Or “competent.”

⁹ tn Or “competence.”