2 Corinthians 2:8

I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him your love.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7so that, on the other hand, ye ought to forgive him and console him; lest he who is such a man, should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

9For it was for this also that I wrote to you, that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in every thing.

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Cross References

Galatians 5:13And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.

Galatians 6:10Now, therefore, while we have the opportunity, let us practice good works towards all men, and especially towards them 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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