2 Corinthians 3:12

3:12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness, ¹ 

2 Corinthians 10:11

10:11 Let such a person consider this: What we say ²  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

2 Corinthians 2:6

2:6 This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,

2 Corinthians 3:4

3:4 Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13

11:13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful ³  workers, disguising themselves ⁴  as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:7

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

2 Corinthians 12:5

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 12:3

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.

[3:12]  ¹ tn Or “we employ great openness of speech.”

[10:11]  ² tn Grk “what we are in word.”

[11:13]  ³ tn Or “dishonest.”

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Or “workers, masquerading.”

[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.