2 Corinthians 12:3

12:3 And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

2 Corinthians 12:2

12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

2 Corinthians 1:7

1:7 And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in ¹  our sufferings, so also you will share in ²  our comfort.

2 Corinthians 11:11

11:11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ³ 

2 Corinthians 4:14

4:14 We do so ⁴  because we know that the one who raised up Jesus ⁵  will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

2 Corinthians 5:6

5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth ⁶  we are absent from the Lord –

2 Corinthians 5:1

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ⁷  is dismantled, ⁸  we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5:11

The Message of Reconciliation

5:11 Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, ⁹  we try to persuade ¹⁰  people, ¹¹  but we are well known ¹²  to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

2 Corinthians 5:16

5:16 So then from now on we acknowledge ¹³  no one from an outward human point of view. ¹⁴  Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, ¹⁵  now we do not know him in that way any longer.

2 Corinthians 9:2

9:2 because I know your eagerness to help. ¹⁶  I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, ¹⁷  that Achaia has been ready to give ¹⁸  since last year, and your zeal to participate ¹⁹  has stirred up most of them. ²⁰ 

2 Corinthians 11:31

11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Grk “as you are sharers in.”

[1:7]  ² tn Grk “will be sharers in.”

[11:11]  ¹ tn Grk “God knows!” The words “I do” are supplied for clarity. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[4:14]  ¹ tn Grk “speak, because.” A new sentence was started here in the translation, with the words “We do so” supplied to preserve the connection with the preceding statement.

[4:14]  ² tc ‡ Several important witnesses (א C D F G Ψ 1881), as well as the Byzantine text, add κύριον (kurion) here, changing the reading to “the Lord Jesus.” Although the external evidence in favor of the shorter reading is slim, the witnesses are important, early, and diverse (Ì⁴⁶ B [0243 33] 629 [630] 1175* [1739] pc r sa). Very likely scribes with pietistic motives added the word κύριον, as they were prone to do, thus compounding this title for the Lord.

[5:6]  ¹ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:1]  ¹ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

[5:1]  ² tn Or “destroyed.”

[5:11]  ¹ tn Or “because we know what it means to fear the Lord.”

[5:11]  ² tn The present tense of πείθομεν (peiqomen) has been translated as a conative present.

[5:11]  ³ tn Grk “men”; but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is generic here since clearly both men and women are in view (Paul did not attempt to win only men to the gospel he preached).

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Or “clearly evident.” BDAG 1048 s.v. φανερόω 2.b.β has “θεῷ πεφανερώμεθα we are well known to God 2 Cor 5:11a, cp. 11b; 11:6 v.l.”

[5:16]  ¹ tn Grk “we know.”

[5:16]  ² tn Grk “no one according to the flesh.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Grk “we have known Christ according to the flesh.”

[9:2]  ¹ tn The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[9:2]  ² tn Grk “concerning which I keep boasting to the Macedonians about you.” A new sentence was started here and the translation was simplified by removing the relative clause and repeating the antecedent “this eagerness of yours.”

[9:2]  ³ tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[9:2]  ⁴ tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[9:2]  ⁵ sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).