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Contemporary English Version

2 Corinthians 2:8

You should make them sure of your love for them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Love;   Scofield Reference Index - Forgiveness;   Gospel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Discipline of the Church;   Mercy;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corinth;   Excommunication;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Excommunication;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Church (2);   Confirmation;   Discipline;   Excommunication;   Excommunication (2);   Restoration of Offenders;   Tares ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Excommunication;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Corinthians, Second Epistle to the;   Excommunication;   Pauline Theology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirme your loue towards him.
King James Version
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
English Standard Version
So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
New Century Version
So I beg you to show that you love him.
Amplified Bible
Therefore I urge you to reinstate him in your affections and reaffirm your love for him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore I encourage you to reaffirm your love for him.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
Complete Jewish Bible
So I urge you to show that you really do love him.
Darby Translation
Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I beg you to show him that you love him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.
George Lamsa Translation
I beseech you therefore that you confirm your love toward him.
Good News Translation
And so I beg you to let him know that you really do love him.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore I urge you to confirm your love for him.
Literal Translation
So I beseech you to confirm your love to him.
American Standard Version
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
Bible in Basic English
For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
International Standard Version
That's why I'm urging you to assure him of your love.
Etheridge Translation
Therefore I entreat of you to confirm to him your love.
Murdock Translation
I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him your love.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore I pray you, that you would confirme your loue towardes hym.
English Revised Version
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.
World English Bible
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I beseech you therefore to confirm your love toward him.
Weymouth's New Testament
I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For which thing Y biseche you, that ye conferme charite in to hym.
Update Bible Version
Therefore I urge you to confirm [your] love toward him.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love towards him.
New English Translation
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
New King James Version
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
New Living Translation
So I urge you now to reaffirm your love for him.
New Life Bible
I ask you to show him you do love him.
New Revised Standard
So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you, assure him, of love;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity towards him.
Revised Standard Version
So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him.
Young's Literal Translation
wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore I exhorte you, that ye shewe loue vpo him.
Mace New Testament (1729)
wherefore, pray, convince him of your affection to him:
Simplified Cowboy Version
Lift your chins and put your pride in your pocket and go get the guy and tell him y'all love him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

Contextual Overview

5 I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones. 6 Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and that is punishment enough for what was done. 7 When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won't give up in despair. 8 You should make them sure of your love for them. 9 I also wrote because I wanted to test you and find out if you would follow my instructions. 10 I will forgive anyone you forgive. Yes, for your sake and with Christ as my witness, I have forgiven whatever needed to be forgiven. 11 I have done this to keep Satan from getting the better of us. We all know what goes on in his mind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Galatians 5:13, Galatians 6:1, Galatians 6:2, Galatians 6:10, Jude 1:22, Jude 1:23

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
Genesis 3:24
Then God put winged creatures at the entrance to the garden and a flaming, flashing sword to guard the way to the life-giving tree.
Genesis 4:16
But Cain had to go far from the Lord and live in the Land of Wandering, which is east of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.
2 Kings 19:12
The Assyrian kings before me destroyed the towns of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and everyone from Eden who lived in Telassar. What good did their gods do them?
Isaiah 51:3
Though Zion is in ruins, the Lord will bring comfort, and the city will be as lovely as the garden of Eden that he provided. Then Zion will celebrate; it will be thankful and sing joyful songs.
Ezekiel 27:23
You also did business with merchants from the cities of Haran, Canneh, Eden, Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad,
Ezekiel 28:13
You lived in the garden of Eden and wore jewelry made of brightly colored gems and precious stones. They were all set in gold and were ready for you on the day you were born.
Ezekiel 31:16
This tree will crash to the ground, and I will send it to the world below. Then the nations of the earth will tremble. The trees from Eden and the choice trees from Lebanon are now in the world of the dead, and they will be comforted when this tree falls.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I beseech you,.... Or exhort you:

that ye would confirm your love towards him: express your love to him in the most kind and tender manner, show the same, and as strong love to him as you did before, and as if he had never offended; receive him as a brother in the most affectionate manner, and embrace him with the most endearing expressions of respect and friendship; and let your reception of him in this kind and friendly way be with the full consent, and by the joint vote and suffrage of the whole church, for so the word translated "confirm" signifies; for as the ejection of a person out of a church must be done by the decree and vote of the church, or it is not authentic, so the reception of a person into it must be in like manner; and since this was to be done by the suffrage of the church, the apostle beseeches and exhorts them to do it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him - The word rendered here as “confirm” (κυρῶσαι kurōsai) occurs in the New Testament only here and in Galatians 3:15. It means to give authority, to establish as valid, to confirm; and here means that they should give strong expressions and assurances of their love to him; that they should pursue such a course as would leave no room for doubt in regard to it. Tyndale has well rendered it: “Wherefore I exhort you that love may halve strength over him.” Paul referred, doubtless, here to some public act of the church by which the sentence of excommunication might be removed, and by which the offender might have a public assurance of their favor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 2:8. That ye would confirm your love toward him. — You do love him, notwithstanding the reproach he has brought on the Gospel; and notwithstanding your love to him, ye were obliged to cut him off for the credit of the Gospel. Now that he has repented, I beseech you to confirm, κυρωσαι, to ratify, by a public act of the Church, your love to him; give him the fullest proof that you do love him; by forgiving him and restoring him to his place in the Church.


 
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