2 Korintus 1:13

1:13 For we do not write you anything other than what ¹  you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely ² 

2 Korintus 3:18

3:18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, ³  are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, ⁴  which is from ⁵  the Lord, who is the Spirit. ⁶ 

2 Korintus 5:1

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, ⁷  is dismantled, ⁸  we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

2 Korintus 10:7

10:7 You are looking at outward appearances. ⁹  If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

2 Korintus 11:9

11:9 When ¹⁰  I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. ¹¹  I ¹²  kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

2 Korintus 12:11

The Signs of an Apostle

12:11 I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison ¹³  to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

[1:13]  ¹ tn Grk “than the things.”

[1:13]  ² tn Grk “to the end,” a Greek idiom for “fully,” “totally,” “completely.”

[3:18]  ³ tn Or “we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror.”

[3:18]  ⁴ tn Grk “from glory to glory.”

[3:18]  ⁵ tn Grk “just as from.”

[3:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “from the Lord, the Spirit”; the genitive πνεύματος (pneumato") has been translated as a genitive of apposition.

[5:1]  ⁷ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

[5:1]  ⁸ tn Or “destroyed.”

[10:7]  ⁹ tn The phrase is close to a recognized idiom for judging based on outward appearances (L&N 30.120). Some translators see a distinction, however, and translate 2 Cor 10:7a as “Look at what is in front of your eyes,” that is, the obvious facts of the case (so NRSV).

[11:9]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “you, and when.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.

[11:9]  ¹¹ tn If the participle ἐλθόντες (elqonte") is taken as temporal rather than adjectival, the translation would be, “for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, fully supplied my needs” (similar to NASB).

[11:9]  ¹² tn Grk “needs, and I kept.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.

[12:11]  ¹³ tn Or “I am in no way inferior.”