2 Corinthians 2:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by even worse grief.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ So [instead of further rebuke, now] you should rather turn and [graciously] forgive and comfort and encourage [him], to keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive sorrow and despair.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

Common English Bible

⁷ This is why you should try your best to forgive and to comfort this person now instead, so that this person isn’t overwhelmed by too much sorrow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:7 Krydshenvisninger

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame those who trample on me. Selah God will send forth his steadfast love and his faithfulness.

Proverbs 1:12

like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; they are confused with wine; they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in giving judgment.

1 Corinthians 15:54

When this perishable body puts on imperishability and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

2 Corinthians 2:8

So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.

Ephesians 4:32

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Philippians 2:27

He was indeed so ill that he nearly died. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, so that I would not have one sorrow after another.

Colossians 3:13

Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister living irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.