2 Corinthians 2:8

Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Wherefore, on the contrary, ye rather ought to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up with excess of sorrow.

9For to this end also have I written, that I may know by this proof of you if ye are obedient in all things.

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Cross References

Galatians 5:13For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

Galatians 6:10Well then, whilst we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, but especially unto those who are of the household of 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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