2 Corinthians 2:3

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν τοῦτο αὐτὸ, ἵνα μὴ, ἐλθὼν λύπην ἔχω ἀφʼ ὧν ἔδει με χαίρειν· πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ πάντας ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ἡ ἐμὴ χαρὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἐστιν.

Transliteration

And egrapsa to you touto auto, hina not, elthōn lypēn I echō from whom edei me to chairein; pepoithōs upon all you, that the my chara of all you estin.

Grammar Details

• *egrapsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I wrote
• *touto auto*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative neuter singular with intensive - this very thing
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular - having come
• *lypēn*: accusative feminine singular - sorrow
• *echō*: present active subjunctive, 1st person singular - I might have
• *edei*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - it was necessary
• *chairein*: present active infinitive - to rejoice
• *pepoithōs*: perfect active participle, masculine nominative singular - having trusted/confident
• *chara*: nominative feminine singular - joy
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is

Word Meanings

• *lypēn*: sorrow/grief/pain
• *chairein*: to rejoice/be glad
• *pepoithōs*: having trusted/being confident/relying
• *chara*: joy/gladness/delight

Referenced Verses

• Gal 5:10 : 10 I have trust towarde you in the Lorde yt ye wyll be none other wyse mynded. He that troubleth you shall beare his iudgemet what soever he be.
• 2 Cor 8:22 : 22 We have sent with them a brother of oures whom we have ofte tymes proved diliget in many thynges but now moche more diligent. The great confidence which I have in you.
• Phlm 1:21 : 21 Trustinge in thyne obediece I wrote vnto the knowynge that thou wilt do more then I saye for.
• 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am made a fole in bostynge my silfe. Ye have copelled me: I ought to have bene comeded of you. For in nothinge was I inferior vnto ye chefe apostels Though I be nothynge
• 2 Cor 12:21-13:2 : 21 I feare lest when I come agayne God brynge me lowe amoge you and I be constrayned to bewayle many of the which have synned all redy and have not repented of the vnclennes fornicacion and wantanes which they haue committed. 1 Now come I the thyrd tyme vnto you In the mouth of two or thre witnesses shall every thinge stonde. 2 I tolde you before and tell you before: and as I sayde whe I was present with you the seconde tyme so wryte I now beynge absent to them which in tyme past have synned and to all other: yt if I come agayne I will not spare
• 2 Thess 3:4 : 4 Wehave confidence thorow the LORde to you warde that ye both do and will do that which we comaude you.
• 1 Cor 4:21-5:13 : 21 What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde or els in love and in the sprete of mekenes? 1 There goeth a comen sayinge that ther is fornicacion amoge you and soche fornicacion as is not once named amonge the gentyls: that one shuld have his fathers wyfe. 2 And ye swell and have not rather sorowed yt he which hath done this dede myght be put fro amoge you. 3 For I verely as absent in body even so present in sprete have determyned all redy (as though I were present) of him that hath done this dede 4 in the name of oure Lorde Iesu Christ when ye are gaddered togedder and my sprete with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christ 5 to deliver him vnto Satan for ye destruccio of the flesshe yt the sprete maye be saved in ye daye of ye Lorde Iesus. 6 Youre reioysinge is not good: knowe ye not that a lytle leve sowreth the whole lompe of dowe. 7 Pourge therfore the olde leven that ye maye be newe dowe as ye are swete breed. For Christ oure esterlambe is offered vp for vs. 8 Therfore let vs kepe holy daye not with olde leve nether with the leven of maliciousnes and wickednes: but with the swete breed of purenes and truth. 9 I wrote vnto you in a pistle that ye shuld not company with fornicatours. 10 And I meat not at all of the fornicatours of this worlde ether of the coveteous or of extorsioners ether of the ydolaters: for then must ye nedes have gone out of ye worlde. 11 But now I write vnto you that ye company not togedder yf eny that is called a brother be a fornicator or coveteous or a worshipper of ymages ether a raylar ether a dronkard or an extorcionar: with him that is soche se that ye eate not. 12 For what have I to do to iudge them which are with out? Do ye not iudge them that are with in? 13 Them that are with out God shall iudge. Put awaye from amonge you that evyll parson.
• 2 Cor 1:15 : 15 And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to have come vnto you that ye myght have had yet one pleasure moare:
• 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 Neverthelesse God that comfortith the abiecte comforted vs at the commynge of Titus.
• 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 Wherfore though I made you sory with a letter I repent not: though I did repent. For I perceave that ye same pistle made you sory though it were but for a ceason.
• 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 Wherfore though I wrote vnto you I did it not for his cause that did hurte nether for his cause that was hurte: but that oure good mynde whych we have towarde you in the sight of god myght appere vnto you.