2 Corinthians 2:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore I encourage you to reaffirm your love for him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

Bible in Basic English
For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

Darby Translation
Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to 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.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirme your loue towards him.

Literal Translation
So I beseech you to confirm your 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:

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

American Standard Version
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward 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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

New Century Version
So I beg you to show that you love him.

New English Translation
Therefore I urge 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.

English Standard Version
So I beg you to reaffirm your love for 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.

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.

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.

English Revised Version
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward 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.

King James Version
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore I urge you to confirm your love for him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore I pray you, that you would confirme your loue towardes hym.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I beg you to show him that you love him.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

Good News Translation
And so I beg you to let him know that you really do love him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For which thing Y biseche you, that ye conferme charite in to hym.

Contextual Overview

⁵Now, regarding the one who started all this—the person in question who caused all this pain—I want you to know that I am not the one injured in this as much as, with a few exceptions, all of you. So I don't want to come down too hard. What the majority of you agreed to as punishment is punishment enough. Now is the time to forgive this man and help him back on his feet. If all you do is pour on the guilt, you could very well drown him in it. My counsel now is to pour on the love. ⁹The focus of my letter wasn't on punishing the offender but on getting you to take responsibility for the health of the church. So if you forgive him, I forgive him. Don't think I'm carrying around a list of personal grudges. The fact is that I'm joining in with your forgiveness, as Christ is with us, guiding us. After all, we don't want to unwittingly give Satan an opening for yet more mischief—we're not oblivious to his sly ways!

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
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.

Genesis 4:16
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom. The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God . After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you." Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .

Ezekiel 27:23
"‘Haran, Canneh, and Eden from the east in Assyria and Media traded with you, bringing elegant clothes, dyed textiles, and elaborate carpets to your bazaars.

Ezekiel 28:13
The Money Has Gone to Your Head God's Message came to me, "Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what God , the Master, says: "‘Your heart is proud, going around saying, "I'm a god. I sit on God's divine throne, ruling the sea"— You, a mere mortal, not even close to being a god, A mere mortal trying to be a god. Look, you think you're smarter than Daniel. No enigmas can stump you. Your sharp intelligence made you world-wealthy. You piled up gold and silver in your banks. You used your head well, worked good deals, made a lot of money. But the money has gone to your head, swelled your head—what a big head! "‘Therefore, God , the Master, says: "‘Because you're acting like a god, pretending to be a god, I'm giving fair warning: I'm bringing strangers down on you, the most vicious of all nations. They'll pull their swords and make hash of your reputation for knowing it all. They'll puncture the balloon of your god-pretensions. They'll bring you down from your self-made pedestal and bury you in the deep blue sea. Will you protest to your assassins, "You can't do that! I'm a god"? To them you're a mere mortal. They're killing a man, not a god. You'll die like a stray dog, killed by strangers— Because I said so. Decree of God , the Master.'" God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, raise a funeral song over the king of Tyre. Tell him, A Message from God , the Master: "You had everything going for you. You were in Eden, God's garden. You were dressed in splendor, your robe studded with jewels: Carnelian, peridot, and moonstone, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald, all in settings of engraved gold. A robe was prepared for you the same day you were created. You were the anointed cherub. I placed you on the mountain of God. You strolled in magnificence among the stones of fire. From the day of your creation you were sheer perfection... and then imperfection—evil!—was detected in you. In much buying and selling you turned violent, you sinned! I threw you, disgraced, off the mountain of God. I threw you out—you, the anointed angel-cherub. No more strolling among the gems of fire for you! Your beauty went to your head. You corrupted wisdom by using it to get worldly fame. I threw you to the ground, sent you sprawling before an audience of kings and let them gloat over your demise. By sin after sin after sin, by your corrupt ways of doing business, you defiled your holy places of worship. So I set a fire around and within you. It burned you up. I reduced you to ashes. All anyone sees now when they look for you is ashes, a pitiful mound of ashes. All who once knew you now throw up their hands: ‘This can't have happened! This has happened!'" God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, confront Sidon. Preach against it. Say, ‘Message from God , the Master: "‘Look! I'm against you, Sidon. I intend to be known for who I truly am among you.' They'll know that I am God when I set things right and reveal my holy presence. I'll order an epidemic of disease there, along with murder and mayhem in the streets. People will drop dead right and left, as war presses in from every side. Then they'll realize that I mean business, that I am God . "No longer will Israel have to put up with their thistle-and-thorn neighbors Who have treated them so contemptuously. And they also will realize that I am God ." God , the Master, says, "When I gather Israel from the peoples among whom they've been scattered and put my holiness on display among them with all the nations looking on, then they'll live in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob. They'll live there in safety. They'll build houses. They'll plant vineyards, living in safety. Meanwhile, I'll bring judgment on all the neighbors who have treated them with such contempt. And they'll realize that I am God ."

Ezekiel 31:18
"‘Which of the trees of Eden came anywhere close to you in splendor and size? But you're slated to be cut down to take your place in the underworld with the trees of Eden, to be a dead log stacked with all the other dead logs, among the other uncircumcised who are dead and buried. "‘This means Pharaoh, the pompous old goat. "‘Decree of God , the Master.'"

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.