2 Corinthians 2:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

so 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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὥστε τοὐναντίον μᾶλλον ὑμᾶς χαρίσασθαι, καὶ παρακαλέσαι, μή πως τῇ περισσοτέρᾳ λύπῃ καταποθῇ ὁ τοιοῦτος.

Transliteration

So that tounantion mallon you to charisasthai, and to parakalesai, lest somehow by the more abundant lypē be katapothē the toioutos.

Grammar Details

• *tounantion*: accusative neuter singular - the opposite
• *mallon*: comparative adverb - rather/more
• *charisasthai*: aorist middle infinitive - to forgive/show favor
• *parakalesai*: aorist active infinitive - to comfort/encourage
• *lypē*: dative feminine singular - sorrow/grief
• *katapothē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might be swallowed up
• *toioutos*: nominative masculine singular demonstrative pronoun - such a one

Word Meanings

• *tounantion*: the opposite/contrary
• *charisasthai*: to forgive/show favor/grant grace
• *parakalesai*: to comfort/encourage/exhort
• *lypē*: sorrow/grief/pain
• *katapothē*: be swallowed up/consumed/overwhelmed

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:32 : 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Phil 2:27 : 27 for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
• Col 3:13 : 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
• 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.
• 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.
• 2 Thess 3:14-15 : 14 And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. 15 And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
• Heb 12:12-15 : 12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed. 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby {G1223} the many be defiled;
• 2 Sam 20:19-20 : 19 I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah? 20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
• Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
• Ps 56:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; {H4791} For they are many that fight proudly against me.
• Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {H5542} God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
• Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
• Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
• Prov 17:22 : 22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
• Isa 28:7 : 7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
• 1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
• 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
• 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For {G2596} godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
• Gal 6:1-2 : 1 Brethren, even if {G2532} a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.