2 Korintus 2:11

2:11 so that we may not be exploited ¹  by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).

2 Korintus 3:11

3:11 For if what was made ineffective ²  came with ³  glory, how much more has what remains ⁴  come in glory!

2 Korintus 4:8

4:8 We are experiencing trouble on every side, ⁵  but are not crushed; we are perplexed, ⁶  but not driven to despair;

2 Korintus 11:28

11:28 Apart from other things, ⁷  there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern ⁸  for all the churches.

2 Korintus 11:31

11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

2 Korintus 12:4

12:4 was caught up into paradise ⁹  and heard things too sacred to be put into words, ¹⁰  things that a person ¹¹  is not permitted to speak.

2 Korintus 13:8

13:8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the sake of the truth.

[2:11]  ¹ tn Or “be taken advantage of.”

[3:11]  ² tn Or “what was fading away.” See note on “which was made ineffective” in v. 7.

[3:11]  ³ tn Or “through” (διά, dia).

[3:11]  ⁴ tn Or “what is permanent.”

[4:8]  ⁵ tn Grk “we are hard pressed [by crowds] on every side.”

[4:8]  ⁶ tn Or “at a loss.”

[11:28]  ⁷ sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.

[11:28]  ⁸ tn “Anxious concern,” so translated in L&N 25.224.

[12:4]  ⁹ sn In the NT, paradise is mentioned three times. In Luke 23:43 it refers to the abode of the righteous dead. In Rev 2:7 it refers to the restoration of Edenic paradise predicted in Isa 51:3 and Ezek 36:35. The reference here in 2 Cor 12:4 is probably to be translated as parallel to the mention of the “third heaven” in v. 2. Assuming that the “first heaven” would be atmospheric heaven (the sky) and “second heaven” the more distant stars and planets, “third heaven” would refer to the place where God dwells. This is much more likely than some variation on the seven heavens mentioned in the pseudepigraphic book 2 Enoch and in other nonbiblical and rabbinic works.

[12:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “things that cannot be put into words.”

[12:4]  ¹¹ tn Grk “a man.”