7so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.


In Context

4 For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

5 But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge you) all of you.

6 Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;

7 so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

8 Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.

9 For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

2 Corinthians 2:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:7So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him,] and comfort [him,] lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:7So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:7so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:7so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:7So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:7so that, on the contrary, it is rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:7So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.