2 Corinthians 2:2

2:2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad ¹  but the one I caused to be sad?

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? ² 

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 9:7

9:7 Each one of you should give ⁵  just as he has decided in his heart, ⁶  not reluctantly ⁷  or under compulsion, ⁸  because God loves a cheerful giver.

[2:2]  ¹ 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?”

[3:1]  ² 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?”

[3:5]  ³ tn Or “competent.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Or “competence.”

[9:7]  ⁴ tn Or “must do.” The words “of you” and “should give” are not in the Greek text, which literally reads, “Each one just as he has decided in his heart.” The missing words are an ellipsis; these or similar phrases must be supplied for the English reader.

[9:7]  ⁵ tn Or “in his mind.”

[9:7]  ⁶ tn Or “not from regret”; Grk “not out of grief.”

[9:7]  ⁷ tn Or “not out of a sense of duty”; Grk “from necessity.”