Study resources for 2 Corinthians Chapter 2 are below:
A pdf of clausal outline with interlinear transliterated lemma and Strong’s numbers is here: 2 Cor 2 NKJV Clausal Interlinear Morph
A pdf of a text comparison of the NIV and ESV translations of 2 Cor 2 is here: 2 Cor 2, NIV and ESV
Key Words
There are no imperative verbs in 2 Cor 2.
Important Nouns
Two key lemmas are the frequently occurring ironic word-pair: sorrow and joy. The two forms of “Sorrow” occur 8x in the chapter, and four forms of “joy” occur 7x, for a total 15x, in a very short chapter of 17 verses. Note that the word translated “forgive” comes from the lemma (base) for “joy”.
Sorrow and Joy occur as shown in the chart below:
Genitive Case Phrases
The genitive case in Greek as in English commonly refers to a relationship of possession / ownership. (There is an important exception to this generalization in the circumstance of “objective genitives” in Greek, which is not our concern here).
In the chart below are shown the genitive cases indicating possession / ownership regarding both God and Christ. Such usage gives us the “belonging to” framework for the subject phrase. 