2 Corinthians 5:13

5:13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 5:9

5:9 So then whether we are alive ¹  or away, we make it our ambition to please him. ² 

2 Corinthians 8:23

8:23 If there is any question ³  about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers ⁴  of the churches, a glory to Christ.

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 1:6

1:6 But if we are afflicted, ⁵  it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

2 Corinthians 5:10

5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ⁶  so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil. ⁷ 

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.

[5:9]  ¹ tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[5:9]  ² tn Grk “to be pleasing to him.”

[8:23]  ¹ tn Grk “If concerning Titus” (εἴτε ὑπὲρ Τίτου, eite Juper Titou); the Greek sentence opens with an ellipsis which must be supplied: If [there is any question] about Titus.”

[8:23]  ² tn Grk “apostles.”

[1:6]  ¹ tn Or “are troubled.”

[5:10]  ¹ sn The judgment seat (βῆμα, bhma) was a raised platform mounted by steps and sometimes furnished with a seat, used by officials in addressing an assembly or making pronouncements, often on judicial matters. The judgment seat was a common item in Greco-Roman culture, often located in the agora, the public square or marketplace in the center of a city. Use of the term in reference to Christ’s judgment would be familiar to Paul’s 1st century readers.

[5:10]  ² tn Or “whether good or bad.”