2 Corinthians 1:24

1:24 I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm. ¹ 

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) ²  he has saddened all of you as well.

2 Corinthians 3:5

3:5 Not that we are adequate ³  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ⁴  is from God,

2 Corinthians 3:10

3:10 For indeed, what had been glorious now ⁵  has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. ⁶ 

2 Corinthians 4:5

4:5 For we do not proclaim ⁷  ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves ⁸  for Jesus’ sake.

2 Corinthians 8:5

8:5 And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

2 Corinthians 8:8

8:8 I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others. ⁹ 

2 Corinthians 10:4

10:4 for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, ¹⁰  but are made powerful by God ¹¹  for tearing down strongholds. ¹²  We tear down arguments ¹³ 

2 Corinthians 10:18

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

2 Corinthians 11:6

11:6 And even if I am unskilled ¹⁴  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 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ¹⁵  I do not say the way the Lord would. ¹⁶  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

2 Corinthians 12:4-5

12:4 was caught up into paradise ¹⁷  and heard things too sacred to be put into words, ¹⁸  things that a person ¹⁹  is not permitted to speak. 12:5 On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

2 Corinthians 12:16

12:16 But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

[1:24]  ¹ tn Or “because you stand firm in the faith.”

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

[3:5]  ³ tn Or “competent.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Or “competence.”

[3:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “in this case.”

[3:10]  ⁵ tn The words “of what replaced it” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

[4:5]  ⁵ tn Or “preach.”

[4:5]  ⁶ tn Traditionally, “servants.” Though δοῦλος (doulos) is normally translated “servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free individual serving another. BDAG notes that “‘servant’ for ‘slave’ is largely confined to Biblical transl. and early American times…in normal usage at the present time the two words are carefully distinguished” (BDAG 260 s.v.). The most accurate translation is “bondservant” (sometimes found in the ASV for δοῦλος), in that it often indicates one who sells himself into slavery to another. But as this is archaic, few today understand its force.

[8:8]  ⁶ tn Grk “by means of the eagerness of others.”

[10:4]  ⁷ tn Grk “are not fleshly [weapons].” The repetition of the word “warfare” does not occur in the Greek text, but is supplied for clarity.

[10:4]  ⁸ tn Or “but (are) divinely powerful,” “but they have divine power,” or “but are powerful for God’s [service]”; Grk “but are powerful to God.”

[10:4]  ⁹ sn Ultimately Paul is referring here to the false arguments of his opponents, calling them figuratively “strongholds.” This Greek word (ὀχύρωμα, ocurwma) is used only here in the NT.

[10:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “speculations.”

[11:6]  ⁸ sn Unskilled in speaking means not professionally trained as a rhetorician.

[11:17]  ⁹ tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchsew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).

[11:17]  ¹⁰ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

[12:4]  ¹⁰ sn In the NT, paradise is mentioned three times. In Luke 23:43 it refers to the abode of the righteous dead. In Rev 2:7 it refers to the restoration of Edenic paradise predicted in Isa 51:3 and Ezek 36:35. The reference here in 2 Cor 12:4 is probably to be translated as parallel to the mention of the “third heaven” in v. 2. Assuming that the “first heaven” would be atmospheric heaven (the sky) and “second heaven” the more distant stars and planets, “third heaven” would refer to the place where God dwells. This is much more likely than some variation on the seven heavens mentioned in the pseudepigraphic book 2 Enoch and in other nonbiblical and rabbinic works.

[12:4]  ¹¹ tn Or “things that cannot be put into words.”

[12:4]  ¹² tn Grk “a man.”