2 Korintus 2:2

2:2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad ¹  but the one I caused to be sad?

2 Korintus 4:11

4:11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible ²  in our mortal body. ³ 

2 Korintus 5:6

5:6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth ⁴  we are absent from the Lord –

2 Korintus 8:11

8:11 to finish what you started, ⁵  so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, ⁶  you can also complete it ⁷  according to your means. ⁸ 

2 Korintus 8:14

8:14 At the present time, your abundance will meet their need, ⁹  so that one day their abundance may also meet your need, and thus there may be equality,

[2:2]  ¹ tn Or “to cheer me up.” L&N 25.131 translates this “For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up?”

[4:11]  ² tn Or “may also be revealed.”

[4:11]  ³ tn Grk “mortal flesh.”

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

[8:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “and now also complete the doing.”

[8:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “just as the eagerness to want [it].”

[8:11]  ⁷ tn Grk “so also it might be completed.” The passive construction was converted to an active one in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style.

[8:11]  ⁸ tn Grk “completed from what you have.”

[8:14]  ⁹ tn Or “their lack.”