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Quick start
- Choose a book and chapter using the picker at the top.
- Read the Berean Standard Bible text in the main column.
- Hover a verse number in the passage to open a manuscript list and timeline.
- Click a verse number or use “Full verse page” for GA lookup, commentary, Greek tools, and (on ECM books) textual apparatus.
- Click any manuscript siglum (e.g. 01, P46) to open its catalog record.
This book
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Two manuscript lists
- Book catalog
- Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.
- ECM
- The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) is the scholarly critical edition of the Greek New Testament. Its apparatus records which manuscripts attest each textual variant at a specific verse.
Sources
English text: Berean Standard Bible (helloao API). NT manuscript catalog and apparatus: Münster NTVMR. Extrabiblical catalog: scholarly inventories with bundled JSON + Firestore. Pre-indexed lists enable fast hover; apparatus XML is fetched live on ECM verse pages.
2 Corinthians 2The chapter view is for reading and quick manuscript discovery. Hover verse superscripts for a preview; open the verse page for full lists, timelines, and analysis tools.
Open verse
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1So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.2For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?3I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be grieved by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.4For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.5Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.6The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.7So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.8Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.9My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.10If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,11in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.12Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord,13I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.16To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?17For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.