2 Corinthians 2:8

Amplified Bible

Therefore I urge you to reinstate him in your affections and reaffirm your love for him.

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.

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.

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

⁵But if someone has caused [all this] sorrow, he has caused it not to me, but in some degree—not to put it too severely—[he has distressed and grieved] all of you. ⁶For such a one this punishment by the majority is sufficient, ⁷so instead [of further rebuke, now] you should rather [graciously] forgive and comfort and encourage him, to keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. ⁸Therefore I urge you to reinstate him in your affections and reaffirm your love for him.⁹For this was my purpose in writing, to see if you would stand the test, whether you are obedient and committed to following my instruction in all things. ¹⁰If you forgive anyone anything, I too forgive [that one]; and what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of [and with the approval of] Christ, ¹¹to keep Satan from taking advantage of us; 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 the LORD God planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.

Genesis 2:9
And [in that garden] the LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree that is desirable and pleasing to the sight and good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil.

Genesis 3:24
So God drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He [permanently] stationed the cherubim and the sword with the flashing blade which turned round and round [in every direction] to protect and guard the way (entrance, access) to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went away from the [manifested] presence of the LORD, and lived in the land of Nod [wandering in exile], east of Eden.

Genesis 13:10
So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].

2 Kings 19:12
'Did the gods of the nations whom my forefathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran [of Mesopotamia] and Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion [in her captivity]; He will comfort all her ruins. And He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and the voice of a melody.

Ezekiel 27:23
"Haran and Canneh and Eden [in Mesopotamia], the merchants of Sheba [on the Euphrates], Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.

Ezekiel 28:13
"You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and your sockets, Was in you. They were prepared On the day that you were created.

Ezekiel 31:16
"I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, will be comforted in the earth beneath [at Assyria's downfall].

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.