2 Corinthians 2:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is 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 confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
• 2 Cor 8:22 : 22 and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,
• Phlm 1:21 : 21 having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;
• 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
• 2 Cor 12:21-13:2 : 21 lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise. 1 This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established; 2 I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
• 2 Thess 3:4 : 4 and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;
• 1 Cor 4:21-5:13 : 21 what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness? 1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! -- 2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work, 3 for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing: 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -- ye being gathered together, also my spirit -- with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Not good `is' your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven? 7 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ, 8 so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth. 9 I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers -- 10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world -- 11 and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together; 12 for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge? 13 and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.
• 2 Cor 1:15 : 15 and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
• 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 but He who is comforting the cast-down -- God -- He did comfort us in the presence of Titus;
• 2 Cor 7:8 : 8 because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.
• 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --