Discovery Box2 Corinthians 1:23 
Context1:23 Now I appeal to God as my witness, 1 that to spare 2 you I did not come again to Corinth. 3
2 Corinthians 3:3
Context3:3 revealing 4 that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, 5 written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets 6 but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Context3:5 Not that we are adequate 7 in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy 8 is from God,
2 Corinthians 4:7
Context4:7 But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power 9 belongs to God and does not come from us.
2 Corinthians 5:1
Context5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, 10 is dismantled, 11 we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:5
Context5:5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose 12 is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. 13
2 Corinthians 8:1
Context8:1 Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, 14 the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,
2 Corinthians 9:11
Context9:11 You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, 15 which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,
2 Corinthians 13:11
Context13:11 Finally, brothers and sisters, 16 rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
1 tn Grk “I call upon God as witness against my soul.” Normally this implies an appeal for help (L&N 33.176).
2 tn Here φειδόμενος (feidomeno") has been translated as a telic participle.
3 sn Paul had promised to come again to visit (see 2 Cor 1:15, 24) but explains here why he had changed his plans.
map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.
4 tn Or “making plain.”
5 tn Grk “cared for by us,” an expression that could refer either to the writing or the delivery of the letter (BDAG 229 s.v. διακονέω 1). Since the following phrase refers to the writing of the letter, and since the previous verse speaks of this “letter” being “written on our [Paul’s and his companions’] hearts” it is more probable that the phrase “cared for by us” refers to the delivery of the letter (in the person of Paul and his companions).
6 sn An allusion to Exod 24:12; 31:18; 34:1; Deut 9:10-11.
7 tn Or “competent.”
8 tn Or “competence.”
9 tn Grk “the surpassingness of the power”; δυνάμεως (dunamew") has been translated as an attributed genitive (“extraordinary power”).
10 sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.
11 tn Or “destroyed.”
12 tn Grk “for this very thing.”
13 tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22).
14 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:8.
15 tn Grk “in every way for every generosity,” or “he will always make you rich enough to be generous at all times” (L&N 57.29).
16 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:8.
