2 Corinthians 2:8

Tyndale New Testament

Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him.

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.

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

⁵ If eny man hath caused sorow the same hath not made me sory but partely: lest I shuld greve you all. ⁶ It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many. ⁷ So that now contrary wyse ye ought to forgeve him and comforte him: lest that same persone shuld be swalowed vp with over moche hevines. ⁸ Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him. ⁹ For this cause verely dyd I write that I myght knowe the profe of you whether ye shuld be obediet in all thinges. ¹⁰ To whom ye forgeve enythinge I forgeve also. And verely if I forgeve enythinge to whom I forgave it for youre sakes forgave I it in the roume of Christ ¹¹ lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.

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

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.