2 Korintus 3:5

3:5 Not that we are adequate ¹  in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy ²  is from God,

2 Korintus 7:5

7:5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our body ³  had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

2 Korintus 8:11

8:11 to finish what you started, ⁴  so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, ⁵  you can also complete it ⁶  according to your means. ⁷ 

2 Korintus 9:3

9:3 But I am sending ⁸  these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready ⁹  just as I kept telling them.

2 Korintus 11:12

11:12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals ¹⁰  in the things they boast about.

2 Korintus 13:1

Paul’s Third Visit to Corinth

13:1 This is the third time I am coming to visit ¹¹  you. By the testimony ¹²  of two or three witnesses every matter will be established. ¹³ 

[3:5]  ¹ tn Or “competent.”

[3:5]  ² tn Or “competence.”

[7:5]  ³ tn Grk “our flesh.”

[8:11]  ⁴ tn Grk “and now also complete the doing.”

[8:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “just as the eagerness to want [it].”

[8:11]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Grk “completed from what you have.”

[9:3]  ⁸ tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.

[9:3]  ⁹ tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.

[11:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “an opportunity, so that they may be found just like us.”

[13:1]  ¹¹ tn The word “visit” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[13:1]  ¹² tn Grk “By the mouth.”

[13:1]  ¹³ sn A quotation from Deut 19:15 (also quoted in Matt 18:16; 1 Tim 5:19).