2 Korintus 9:15

9:15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! ¹ 

2 Korintus 3:10

3:10 For indeed, what had been glorious now ²  has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. ³ 

2 Korintus 6:1

God’s Suffering Servants

6:1 Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain. ⁴ 

2 Korintus 12:4

12:4 was caught up into paradise ⁵  and heard things too sacred to be put into words, ⁶  things that a person ⁷  is not permitted to speak.

[9:15]  ¹ tn “Let us thank God for his gift which cannot be described with words” (L&N 33.202).

[3:10]  ² tn Grk “in this case.”

[3:10]  ³ tn The words “of what replaced it” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

[6:1]  ⁴ tn Or “receive the grace of God uselessly.”

[12:4]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Or “things that cannot be put into words.”

[12:4]  ⁷ tn Grk “a man.”