Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
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Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
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Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him.
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Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to 2 Corinthians 2:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jude 1:22-23 On some have compassion, making a distinction, and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
- Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- Galatians 6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
- Galatians 6:1-2 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That at my entreaty, you would declare by the…
That at my entreaty, you would declare by the consent of the whole Church, that you take him again for a brother.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm…
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
Ver. 8. Confirm your love, &c.] Gr. κυρωσαι, ratify it, and declare it authentic, as it were in open court, and by public sentence, {as Gal 3:15} and that at mine instance, as an advocate, παρακαλω.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That you would restore him to a communion with…
That you would restore him to a communion with you in your church assemblies, and take him into the bosom of your church again, and be (as before) friendly towards him. The word which we translate
confirm; is κυρωσαι, which signifieth authoritatively to establish or confirm. Some observe, that the apostle speaks to them as judges, to gain their good opinion, and make them more pliable, whereas he might authoritatively have absolved him. It is hard: to say what authority the apostles had, or had not, to excommunicate; but we want a precedent in holy writ of the apostles, or any of them, exercising such a power, as being absent, and so in no capacity to hear the proof of any fact against scandalous persons. Paul (1Co 5:1-13) writes to the church of Corinth to do it, and doth only himself command them to do their duty; and here again he writeth to them to forgive him, and restore him. There being no mention, either in the former Epistle, or here, of any command that the incestuous person should put away his wife taken unlawfully, or that he did any such thing in testification of his repentance, makes it very probable, that his crime was not using his father’s wife as his wife, but as his harlot; had it been otherwise, we should, very probably, have read of something in the one or the other place, signifying such a command of the apostle, or the thing done by him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wherefore I beseech you,.... Or exhort you:
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.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. That ye would confirm your love toward…
Verse 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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your…
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 Gal 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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain confirm your love toward him--by giving effect in act,…
confirm your love toward him--by giving effect in act, and showing in deeds your love; namely, by restoring him to your fellowship and praying for his recovering from the sickness penally inflicted on him.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. Beseech you—As yet the Church, though predisposed to…
8. Beseech you—As yet the Church, though predisposed to lenity and love, had not acted for his restoration.
Confirm—Put into authoritative form by official restoration.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirm…
8. Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirm your love towards him] The word ‘your’ is not in the original. It is not their love, but love itself, the fundamental principle (see 1Co_13:1; 1Jn_4:8; 1Jn_4:16) of the Christian covenant. The word here rendered confirm is used of the ratification, i.e. by some public act or token, of a covenant. See Gal_3:15; Gal_3:17, where the same word is used in the original. The Vulgate, Calvin, Wiclif, the Geneva and Rhemish versions render confirm, Tyndale and Cranmer that love may have strength.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) That ye would confirm your love.—The word for…
(8) That ye would confirm your love.—The word for “confirm” (better, perhaps, ratify—comp. Gal_3:15) suggests the thought of an act as formal and public as the rebuke had been. The excommunicated man was to be re-admitted to fellowship by a collective act of the Church.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain To confirm your love toward him; literally, to ratify…
To confirm your love toward him; literally, to ratify towards him, love.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 8. I beseech you that to confirm your love…
8. I beseech you that to confirm your love toward him. The object of the discipline was to save (1 Cor. 5:5). Since it had had the desired effect, the offender should be restored.
B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament with Notes (1889–1891) — public domain. Electronic text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) ThML edition.
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward…
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him .
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Paul encourages the church in Corinth to show love and to forgive the person they have punished. He writes that he, also, has forgiven him.
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publicly affirm your love for him
This means that they are to confirm their love for this man in the presence of all of the believers.
you are obedient in everything
Possible meanings are 1) "you are obedient to God in everything" or 2) "you are obedient in everything that I have taught you" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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courage
obey
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