Discovery Box2 Corinthians 5:12 
Context5:12 We are not trying to commend 1 ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, 2 so that you may be able to answer those who take pride 3 in outward appearance 4 and not in what is in the heart.
2 Corinthians 9:5
Context9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution 5 you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift 6 and not as something you feel forced to do. 7
2 Corinthians 12:14
Context12:14 Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have 8 to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
2 Corinthians 12:20
Context12:20 For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me 9 not what you wish. I am afraid that 10 somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, 11 slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
1 tn The present tense of συνιστάνομεν (sunistanomen) has been translated as a conative present.
2 tn Or “to boast about us.”
3 tn Or “who boast.”
4 tn Or “in what is seen.”
5 tn Grk “the blessing.”
6 tn Grk “a blessing.”
7 tn Grk “as a covetousness”; that is, a gift given grudgingly or under compulsion.
8 tn Grk “children ought not,” but this might give the impression that children are not supposed to support sick or aging parents in need of help. That is not what Paul is saying. His point is that children should not have to pay their parent’s way.
9 tn Grk “and I will be found by you.” The passive construction has been converted to an active one in the translation.
10 tn The words “I am afraid that” are not repeated in the Greek text, but are needed for clarity.
11 tn Or “intense anger, hostility.”
