Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.
New American Standard Bible
Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
King James Version
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
Holman Bible
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
International Standard Version
That's why I'm urging you to assure him of your love.
A Conservative Version
Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him.
American Standard Version
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
Amplified
Therefore I urge you to reinstate him in your affections and reaffirm your
An Understandable Version
So, I urge you to reassure him of your love for him.
Anderson New Testament
Wherefore, I exhort you to give him an assurance of your love.
Common New Testament
I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.
Daniel Mace New Testament
wherefore, pray, convince him of your affection to him:
Darby Translation
Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore I exhort you to stir up your divine love for him:
Goodspeed New Testament
So I beg you to restore him to his place in your affections.
John Wesley New Testament
I beseech you therefore to confirm your love toward him.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.
King James 2000
Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore I urge you to confirm [your] love for him.
Modern King James verseion
So I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore I exhort you, that love may have strength over him.
Moffatt New Testament
So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.
Montgomery New Testament
So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.
NET Bible
Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
Noyes New Testament
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
Sawyer New Testament
I exhort you, therefore, to confirm your love to him;
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you, assure him, of love;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him.
Twentieth Century New Testament
So I entreat you to assure him of your love.
Webster
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love towards him.
Weymouth New Testament
I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
Williams New Testament
So I beg you in your love to reinstate him entirely.
World English Bible
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
Worrell New Testament
Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
Worsley New Testament
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love to him.
Youngs Literal Translation
wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 2:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Forgive And Comfort The Offender
7 So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great. 8 For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts. 9 And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.
Cross References
Galatians 5:13
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
Galatians 6:1-2
Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.
Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
Jude 1:22-23
And have pity on those who are in doubt;