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2 Corinthians 2:2

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2:2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad 1  but the one I caused to be sad?

2 Corinthians 8:8

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8:8 I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others. 2 

2 Corinthians 11:2

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11:2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, 3  to present you as a pure 4  virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:7

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11:7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself 5  so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed 6  the gospel of God to you free of charge?

2 Corinthians 11:17

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11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence 7  I do not say the way the Lord would. 8  Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

2 Corinthians 12:3

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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 12:5

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12:5 On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

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 Grk “by means of the eagerness of others.”

3 tn That is, to Christ.

4 tn Or “chaste.”

5 sn Paul is referring to humbling himself to the point of doing manual labor to support himself.

6 tn Or “preached.”

7 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).

8 tn Or “say with the Lord’s authority.”



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