2 Corinthians 8:24

8:24 Therefore show ¹  them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you. ² 

2 Corinthians 11:17

11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence ³  I do not say the way the Lord would. ⁴  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

2 Corinthians 7:4

A Letter That Caused Sadness

7:4 I have great confidence in you; I take great pride ⁵  on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; ⁶  I am overflowing with joy in the midst of ⁷  all our suffering.

2 Corinthians 11:10

11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine ⁸  will not be stopped ⁹  in the regions of Achaia.

[8:24]  ¹ tc The sense of this translation is attested by the fact that most of the later mss, along with several early and important ones (א C D² Ψ 0225 0243 1739 1881 Ï lat), have the imperative verb ἐνδείξασθε (ejndeixasqe) in place of the participle ἐνδεικνύμενοι (endeiknumenoi), which is found in B D* F G 33 pc. Since an imperatival participle is more Hebraic in style, many scribes would not have understood the idiom as easily and would have been likely to change the participle to an imperative (so TCGNT 513-14). But there is no good reason why scribes would change the imperative into a participle. Thus, ἐνδεικνύμενοι is almost surely the wording of the original text.

[8:24]  ² tn Or “our boasting about you.”

[11:17]  ³ tn Grk “with this confidence of boasting.” The genitive καυχήσεως (kauchsew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (the noun in the genitive gives an attribute of the noun modified).

[11:17]  ⁴ tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”

[7:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “great is my boasting.”

[7:4]  ⁶ tn Or “comfort.”

[7:4]  ⁷ tn Grk “I am overflowing with joy in all our suffering”; the words “in the midst of” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to clarify that Paul is not rejoicing in the suffering itself, but in his relationship with the Corinthians in the midst of all his suffering.

[11:10]  ⁷ tn That is, that Paul offers the gospel free of charge to the Corinthians (see 2 Cor 11:7).

[11:10]  ⁸ tn Or “silenced.”