King James Version
2 Corinthians 2:8 in the King James Version says “Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.” — study this verse from 2 Corinthians chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.”
2 Corinthians 2:8 · KJV
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. punishment: or, censure
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; person: or, sight in the person: or, in the sight
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I beseech”
G3870to call near, i.e., invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
“toward”
G1519to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases
“him”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
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