2 Corinthians 1:16

1:16 and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back ¹  to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

2 Corinthians 1:18

1:18 But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

2 Corinthians 2:2

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

2 Corinthians 2:5

2:5 But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) ³  he has saddened all of you as well.

2 Corinthians 2:7

2:7 so that now instead ⁴  you should rather forgive and comfort him. ⁵  This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair. ⁶ 

2 Corinthians 3:1

A Living Letter

3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? ⁷ 

2 Corinthians 6:1

God’s Suffering Servants

6:1 Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain. ⁸ 

2 Corinthians 8:6

8:6 Thus ⁹  we urged ¹⁰  Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, ¹¹  so also he should complete this act of kindness ¹²  for you.

2 Corinthians 8:23

8:23 If there is any question ¹³  about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers ¹⁴  of the churches, a glory to Christ.

2 Corinthians 9:14

9:14 And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you. ¹⁵ 

2 Corinthians 11:6

11:6 And even if I am unskilled ¹⁶  in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

2 Corinthians 12:15

12:15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! ¹⁷  If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

2 Corinthians 13:1

Paul’s Third Visit to Corinth

13:1 This is the third time I am coming to visit ¹⁸  you. By the testimony ¹⁹  of two or three witnesses every matter will be established. ²⁰ 

[1:16]  ¹ tn Grk “come again.”

[2:2]  ² 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?”

[2:5]  ³ tn Or “(not to say too much)”; Grk “(not to burden you [with words]).”

[2:7]  ⁴ tn Grk “so that on the other hand.”

[2:7]  ⁵ tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text but is supplied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted and must be supplied from the context.

[2:7]  ⁶ tn Grk “comfort him, lest somehow such a person be swallowed up by excessive grief,” an idiom for a person being so overcome with grief as to despair or give up completely (L&N 25.285). In this context of excessive grief or regret for past sins, “overwhelmed” is a good translation since contemporary English idiom speaks of someone “overwhelmed by grief.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the difficulty of expressing a negative purpose/result clause in English, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:1]  ⁵ tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply (“No, we do not”) which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ at the end, “do we?”

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Or “receive the grace of God uselessly.”

[8:6]  ⁷ tn A new sentence was started here in the translation and the word “thus” was supplied to indicate that it expresses the result of the previous clause.

[8:6]  ⁸ tn Or “we exhorted.”

[8:6]  ⁹ tn The words “this work” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted and must be supplied from the context.

[8:6]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “this grace.”

[8:23]  ⁸ tn Grk “If concerning Titus” (εἴτε ὑπὲρ Τίτου, eite Juper Titou); the Greek sentence opens with an ellipsis which must be supplied: If [there is any question] about Titus.”

[8:23]  ⁹ tn Grk “apostles.”

[9:14]  ⁹ tn Grk “the extraordinary grace of God to you”; the point is that God has given or shown grace to the Corinthians.

[11:6]  ¹⁰ sn Unskilled in speaking means not professionally trained as a rhetorician.

[12:15]  ¹¹ tn Grk “souls.”

[13:1]  ¹² tn The word “visit” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[13:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “By the mouth.”

[13:1]  ¹⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 19:15 (also quoted in Matt 18:16; 1 Tim 5:19).