2 Corinthians 2:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 Cross References

Psalm 124:3

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:

Psalm 21:9

Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

Psalm 57:3

He shall send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth; Selah God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart is a good medicine: But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Isaiah 28:7

But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are gone astray; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgement.

1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

2 Corinthians 2:8

Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Ephesians 4:32

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Philippians 2:27

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Colossians 3:13

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, which have no hope.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.