2 Corinthians 2:8
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
BSB
ASV
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
KJV
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
He no longer commands as a teacher, but as an advocate asks the judges "to show him love," that is, to receive him with firm love, and not simply and casually. He also shows their virtue, for those very people who previously loved the man …
They must also confirm their love to him; that is, they should show that their reproofs and censures proceeded from love to his person, as well as hatred to his sin, and that their design was to reform, not to ruin him.
That ye would confirm your love toward him - You do love him, notwithstanding the reproach he has brought on the Gospel; and notwithstanding your love to him, ye were obliged to cut him off for the credit of the Gospel. Now that he has repented, I beseech you to confirm, κυρωσαι, to ratify, by a public act of the Church, your love to him; give him the fullest proof that you do love him; by forgiving him and restoring him to his place in the Church.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
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Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Galatians 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
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And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.