2 Corinthians 4:12

4:12 As a result, ¹  death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. ² 

2 Corinthians 2:7

2:7 so that now instead ³  you should rather forgive and comfort him. ⁴  This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair. ⁵ 

2 Corinthians 5:17

5:17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away ⁶  – look, what is new ⁷  has come! ⁸ 

2 Corinthians 5:16

5:16 So then from now on we acknowledge ⁹  no one from an outward human point of view. ¹⁰  Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, ¹¹  now we do not know him in that way any longer.

2 Corinthians 1:8

1:8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, ¹²  regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, ¹³  that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

2 Corinthians 3:7

The Greater Glory of the Spirit’s Ministry

3:7 But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets ¹⁴  – came with glory, so that the Israelites ¹⁵  could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face ¹⁶  (a glory ¹⁷  which was made ineffective), ¹⁸ 

2 Corinthians 7:7

7:7 We were encouraged ¹⁹  not only by his arrival, but also by the encouragement ²⁰  you gave ²¹  him, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, ²²  your deep concern ²³  for me, so that I rejoiced more than ever.

[4:12]  ¹ tn Or “So then.”

[4:12]  ² tn Grk “death is at work in us, but life in you”; the phrase “is at work in” is repeated in the translation for clarity.

[2:7]  ³ tn Grk “so that on the other hand.”

[2:7]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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.

[5:17]  ⁵ tn Grk “old things have passed away.”

[5:17]  ⁶ tc Most mss have the words τὰ πάντα (ta panta, “all things”; cf. KJV “behold, all things are become new”), some after καίνα (kaina, “new”; D² K L P Ψ 104 326 945 2464 pm) and others before it (6 33 81 614 630 1241 1505 1881 pm). The reading without τὰ πάντα, however, has excellent support from both the Western and Alexandrian texttypes (Ì⁴⁶ א B C D* F G 048 0243 365 629 1175 1739 pc co), and the different word order of the phrase which includes it (“all things new” or “new all things”) in the ms tradition indicates its secondary character. This secondary addition may have taken place because of assimilation to τὰ δὲ πάντα (ta de panta, “and all [these] things”) that begins the following verse.

[5:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “new things have come [about].”

[5:16]  ⁷ tn Grk “we know.”

[5:16]  ⁸ tn Grk “no one according to the flesh.”

[5:16]  ⁹ tn Grk “we have known Christ according to the flesh.”

[1:8]  ⁹ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1., where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

[1:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.

[3:7]  ¹¹ tn Grk “on stones”; but since this is clearly an allusion to the tablets of the Decalogue (see 2 Cor 3:3) the word “tablets” was supplied in the translation to make the connection clear.

[3:7]  ¹² tn Grk “so that the sons of Israel.”

[3:7]  ¹³ sn The glory of his face. When Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the tablets of the Decalogue, the people were afraid to approach him because his face was so radiant (Exod 34:29-30).

[3:7]  ¹⁴ tn The words “a glory” are not in the Greek text, but the reference to “glory” has been repeated from the previous clause for clarity.

[3:7]  ¹⁵ tn Or “which was transitory.” Traditionally this phrase is translated as “which was fading away.” The verb καταργέω in the corpus Paulinum uniformly has the meaning “to render inoperative, ineffective”; the same nuance is appropriate here. The glory of Moses’ face was rendered ineffective by the veil Moses wore. For discussion of the meaning of this verb in this context, see S. J. Hafemann, Paul, Moses, and the History of Israel (WUNT 81), 301-13. A similar translation has been adopted in the two other occurrences of the verb in this paragraph in vv. 11 and 13.

[7:7]  ¹³ tn Because of the length and complexity of this Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the phrase “We were encouraged.”

[7:7]  ¹⁴ tn Or “comfort,” “consolation.”

[7:7]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “by the encouragement with which he was encouraged by you.” The passive construction was translated as an active one in keeping with contemporary English style, and the repeated word “encouraged” was replaced in the translation by “gave” to avoid redundancy in the translation.

[7:7]  ¹⁶ tn Or “your grieving,” “your deep sorrow.”

[7:7]  ¹⁷ tn Or “your zeal.”