¹ tn Or “to cheer me up.” L&N 25.131 translates this “For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up?”

² tn Or “(not to say too much)”; Grk “(not to burden you [with words]).”

³ tn Or “competent.”

⁴ tn Or “competence.”

⁵ tn Grk “the ministry of condemnation”; translated as an objective genitive, “the ministry that produced condemnation.”

⁶ tn Grk “the ministry of righteousness”; translated as an objective genitive, “the ministry that produces righteousness.”

⁷ tn Traditionally, “abound.”

⁸ tn Or “do not lose heart.”

⁹ tn Grk “our outer man.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “our inner [man].”

¹¹ tn Grk “old things have passed away.”

¹² 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.

¹³ tn Grk “new things have come [about].”

¹⁴ tn The words “the gift itself” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Translators often supply an English phrase like “it is” (NASB) but in the context, Paul is clearly referring to the collection Titus was to oversee (2 Cor 8:4-7). Therefore there is no reason not to specify the referent (the gift) more narrowly for clarity.