¹tn Or “it is superfluous.”
²tn Or “this ministry,” “this contribution.”
³tn The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
⁴tn Grk “concerning which I keep boasting to the Macedonians about you.” A new sentence was started here and the translation was simplified by removing the relative clause and repeating the antecedent “this eagerness of yours.”
⁵tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
⁶tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
⁷sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).
⁸tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.
⁹tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.
¹⁰tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”
¹¹tn Grk “by this confidence”; the words “we had in you” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied as a necessary clarification for the English reader.
¹²tn Grk “the blessing.”
¹³tn Grk “a blessing.”
¹⁴tn Grk “as a covetousness”; that is, a gift given grudgingly or under compulsion.
¹⁵tn Or “bountifully”; so also in the next occurrence in the verse.
¹⁶tn Or “must do.” The words “of you” and “should give” are not in the Greek text, which literally reads, “Each one just as he has decided in his heart.” The missing words are an ellipsis; these or similar phrases must be supplied for the English reader.
¹⁷tn Or “in his mind.”
¹⁸tn Or “not from regret”; Grk “not out of grief.”
¹⁹tn Or “not out of a sense of duty”; Grk “from necessity.”
²⁰tn Or “abound.”
²¹tn Or “so that by having enough.” The Greek participle can be translated as a participle of cause (“because you have enough”) or means (“by having enough”).
²²tn Or “abound.”
²³sn He in the quotation refers to the righteous person.
²⁴sn A quotation from Ps 112:9.
²⁵tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
²⁶tn Grk “in every way for every generosity,” or “he will always make you rich enough to be generous at all times” (L&N 57.29).
²⁷tn Or “not only supplying.”
²⁸tn Or “proof,” or perhaps “testing” (NRSV).
²⁹tn Or “ministry.”
³⁰tn Or “your partnership”; Grk “your fellowship.”
³¹tn Grk “the extraordinary grace of God to you”; the point is that God has given or shown grace to the Corinthians.
³²tn “Let us thank God for his gift which cannot be described with words” (L&N 33.202).