2 Corinthians 2:8

Therefore I entreat of you to confirm to him your love.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

In Context

7And now on the other hand it behoves you to forgive him and console him, lest he who is such an one be swallowed up of excessive grief.

9On this account also I have written, to ascertain by experiment whether in every thing you will obey me.

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Cross References

Galatians 5:13But you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.

Galatians 6:10Now, therefore, while the time is ours, let us do good unto every man, and especially to the sons of the house of the faith.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:6-12

Case of the Incestuous Person. ( a. d. 57.) 5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye… Read the whole commentary →

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