Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
Therefore I exhort you to stir up your divine love for him:
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.
Bible in Basic English
For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.
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.
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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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 2:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Forgive And Comfort The Offender
7 so on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one may be swallowed up with excessive grief. 8 Therefore I exhort you to stir up your divine love for him: 9 for unto this also I wrote, in order that I may know your approval, if you are obedient in all things.
Cross References
Galatians 5:13
For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.
Galatians 6:1-2
Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted.
Galatians 6:10
Then therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Jude 1:22-23
And some of whom indeed convict, being judged: