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Lexham English Bible

2 Corinthians 2:8

Therefore I urge you to confirm your love for him.

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.
Contemporary English Version
You should make them sure of your love for them.
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.
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 But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me sorrow, but to some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you. 6 This punishment by the majority is sufficient for such a person. 7 So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 Therefore I urge you to confirm your love for him. 9 Because for this reason also I wrote, in order that I could know your proven character, whether you are obedient in everything. 10 Now to whomever you forgive anything, I also do; for indeed, whatever I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sake in the presence of Christ, 11 in order that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).

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
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:24
So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming, turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered land—this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar.
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed deliver them? Not Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, nor the children of Eden who were in Tel Assar.
Isaiah 51:3
For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will make its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the sound of song.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad were trading with you.
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God, and every precious stone was your adornment: carnelian, topaz and moonstone, turquoise, onyx and jasper, sapphire, malachite and emerald. And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings and your mountings in you; on the day when you were created they were prepared.
Ezekiel 31:16
From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave, and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees were comforted!

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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