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New American Standard Bible 2020

2 Corinthians 2

Reaffirm Your Love

1But I decided this 1for my own sake, that I 2would not come to you in sorrow again. 2For if I 3cause you sorrow, who then will be the one making me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? 3This is the very thing I 4wrote you, so that 5when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having 6confidence in you all that my joy was the joy of you all. 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I 7wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

5But 8if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not for me, but in some degree--9not to say too much--for all of you. 6Sufficient for such a person is 10this punishment which was imposed by the majority, 7so that on the other hand, you should rather 11forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a person might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. 9For to this end 12I also wrote, so that I might 1314put you to the test, whether you are 15obedient in all things. 10But one whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did so for your sakes 16in the presence of Christ, 11so that no advantage would be taken of us by 17Satan, for 18we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12Now when I came to 19Troas for the 20gospel of Christ and when a 21door was opened for me in the Lord, 13I 22had no rest for my spirit, not finding 23Titus my brother; but 24saying goodbye to them, I went on to 25Macedonia.

1426But thanks be to God, who always 27leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us reveals the 28fragrance of the 29knowledge of Him in every place. 15For we are a 30fragrance of Christ to God among 31those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: 1632to the one an 33aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is 34adequate for these things? 17For we are not like the many, 3536peddling the word of God, but 37as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ 38in the sight of God.

Notes

  1. 1. 2 Corinthians 2:1 Or as far as I am concerned ↩
  2. 2. 2 Corinthians 2:1 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 12:21 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Corinthians 2:2 2 Cor 7:8 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Corinthians 2:3 2 Cor 2:9; 7:8, 12 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Corinthians 2:3 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 12:21 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Corinthians 2:3 Gal 5:10; 2 Thess 3:4; Philem 21 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Corinthians 2:4 2 Cor 2:9; 7:8, 12 ↩
  8. 8. 2 Corinthians 2:5 1 Cor 5:1f ↩
  9. 9. 2 Corinthians 2:5 Lit so that I not be burdensome ↩
  10. 10. 2 Corinthians 2:6 1 Cor 5:4f; 2 Cor 7:11 ↩
  11. 11. 2 Corinthians 2:7 Gal 6:1; Eph 4:32 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Cor 2:3f ↩
  13. 13. 2 Corinthians 2:9 Lit know the proof of you ↩
  14. 14. 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Cor 8:2; Phil 2:22 ↩
  15. 15. 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Cor 7:15; 10:6 ↩
  16. 16. 2 Corinthians 2:10 1 Cor 5:4; 2 Cor 4:6 ↩
  17. 17. 2 Corinthians 2:11 Matt 4:10 ↩
  18. 18. 2 Corinthians 2:11 Luke 22:31; 2 Cor 4:4; 1 Pet 5:8 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Acts 16:8 ↩
  20. 20. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Rom 1:1; 2 Cor 4:3, 4; 8:18; 9:13; 10:14; 11:4, 7; 1 Thess 3:2 ↩
  21. 21. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Acts 14:27 ↩
  22. 22. 2 Corinthians 2:13 2 Cor 7:5 ↩
  23. 23. 2 Corinthians 2:13 2 Cor 7:6, 13f; 8:6, 16, 23; 12:18; Gal 2:1, 3; 2 Tim 4:10; Titus 1:4 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Corinthians 2:13 Mark 6:46 ↩
  25. 25. 2 Corinthians 2:13 Rom 15:26 ↩
  26. 26. 2 Corinthians 2:14 Rom 1:8; 6:17; 1 Cor 15:57; 2 Cor 8:16; 9:15 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Corinthians 2:14 Col 2:15 ↩
  28. 28. 2 Corinthians 2:14 Song 1:3; Ezek 20:41; Eph 5:2; Phil 4:18 ↩
  29. 29. 2 Corinthians 2:14 1 Cor 12:8 ↩
  30. 30. 2 Corinthians 2:15 Song 1:3; Ezek 20:41; Eph 5:2; Phil 4:18 ↩
  31. 31. 2 Corinthians 2:15 1 Cor 1:18 ↩
  32. 32. 2 Corinthians 2:16 Luke 2:34; John 9:39; 1 Pet 2:7f ↩
  33. 33. 2 Corinthians 2:16 Or odor ↩
  34. 34. 2 Corinthians 2:16 2 Cor 3:5f ↩
  35. 35. 2 Corinthians 2:17 Or diluting ↩
  36. 36. 2 Corinthians 2:17 2 Cor 4:2; Gal 1:6-9 ↩
  37. 37. 2 Corinthians 2:17 1 Cor 5:8; 2 Cor 1:12; 1 Thess 2:4; 1 Pet 4:11 ↩
  38. 38. 2 Corinthians 2:17 2 Cor 12:19 ↩

Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 2

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