2 Corinthians 3:17

3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:6

3:6 who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 3:8

3:8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?

2 Corinthians 6:6

6:6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,

2 Corinthians 1:22

1:22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

2 Corinthians 5:5

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

2 Corinthians 2:13

2:13 I had no relief in my spirit, 10  because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them 11  and set out 12  for Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 3:18

3:18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, 13  are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, 14  which is from 15  the Lord, who is the Spirit. 16 

2 Corinthians 4:13

4:13 But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in 17  what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” 18  we also believe, therefore we also speak.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Self-Purification

7:1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves 19  from everything that could defile the body 20  and the spirit, and thus accomplish 21  holiness out of reverence for God. 22 

2 Corinthians 7:13

7:13 Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit. 23 

2 Corinthians 12:18

12:18 I urged Titus to visit you 24  and I sent our 25  brother along with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? 26  Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not behave in the same way? 27 

2 Corinthians 13:14

13:14 [[EMPTY]] 28 

2 Corinthians 3:3

3:3 revealing 29  that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, 30  written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets 31  but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 11:4

11:4 For if someone comes and proclaims 32  another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, 33  or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, 34  or a different gospel than the one you accepted, 35  you put up with it well enough! 36 

tn Grk “where the Spirit of the Lord is”; the word “present” is supplied to specify that the presence of the Lord’s Spirit is emphasized rather than the mere existence of the Lord’s Spirit.

tn Or “competent.”

sn This new covenant is promised in Jer 31:31-34; 32:40.

tn Grk “how will not rather the ministry of the Spirit be with glory?”

tn Or “by holiness of spirit.”

tn Or “sincere.”

tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit.”

tn Grk “for this very thing.”

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

tn Or “I had no peace of mind.”

tn Or “I took my leave of them.”

tn Since this refers to the outset of a journey, the aorist ἐξῆλθον (exhlqon) is taken ingressively.

tn Or “we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror.”

tn Grk “from glory to glory.”

10 tn Grk “just as from.”

11 tn Grk “from the Lord, the Spirit”; the genitive πνεύματος (pneumato") has been translated as a genitive of apposition.

tn Grk “spirit of faith according to.”

10 sn A quotation from Ps 116:10.

10 tn Or “purify ourselves.”

11 tn Grk “from every defilement of the flesh.”

12 tn Grk “accomplishing.” The participle has been translated as a finite verb due to considerations of contemporary English style, and “thus” has been supplied to indicate that it represents a result of the previous cleansing.

13 tn Grk “in the fear of God.”

11 tn Or “all of you have put his mind at ease.”

12 tn The words “to visit you” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, and must be supplied for the modern reader.

13 tn Grk “the.”

14 tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative answer, indicated by the ‘tag’ question “did he?” at the end of the clause.

15 tn Grk “[Did we not walk] in the same tracks?” This is an idiom that means to imitate someone else or to behave as they do. Paul’s point is that he and Titus have conducted themselves in the same way toward the Corinthians. If Titus did not take advantage of the Corinthians, then neither did Paul.

13 tc Most witnesses, especially later ones (א2 D Ψ Ï lat sy bo), conclude this letter with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”), while several early and important mss (Ì46 א* A B F G 0243 6 33 630 1175 1739 1881 pc sa) lack the particle. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. That so many diverse witnesses lacked the word here is strong testimony to its absence for the original text of 2 Corinthians.

14 tn Or “making plain.”

15 tn Grk “cared for by us,” an expression that could refer either to the writing or the delivery of the letter (BDAG 229 s.v. διακονέω 1). Since the following phrase refers to the writing of the letter, and since the previous verse speaks of this “letter” being “written on our [Paul’s and his companions’] hearts” it is more probable that the phrase “cared for by us” refers to the delivery of the letter (in the person of Paul and his companions).

16 sn An allusion to Exod 24:12; 31:18; 34:1; Deut 9:10-11.

15 tn Or “preaches.”

16 tn Grk “another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed.”

17 tn Grk “a different spirit which you did not receive.”

18 tn Grk “a different gospel which you did not accept.”

19 tn Or “you endure it very well.”