2 Corinthians 2

1 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

And I determined this with myself, that I would not again come to you in sadness.

2 For if I grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

For if I should make you sad, who would make me joyful, unless he whom I had made sad?

3 And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.

And I wrote that very thing to you, lest when I came, those persons whom I ought to make joyful, should make me sad. For I have confidence concerning you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

And in much affliction, and in anguish of heart, I wrote those things to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the exceeding love I have for you.

5 But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

And if one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me only, but, -that the declaration may not bear too hard on you-in a measure, all of you.

6 Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

And sufficient for him, is this rebuke proceeding from many:

7 so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

so that, on the other hand, ye ought to forgive him and console him; lest he who is such a man, should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

8 Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him your love.

9 For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

For it was for this also that I wrote to you, that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in every thing.

10 But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sakes in [the] person of Christ;

And whom ye forgive, I also forgive: for that which I forgave to any one, for your sakes I forgave it, in the presence of the Messiah;

11 that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

lest Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the] Lord,

Moreover, when I came to Troas in announcing the Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

there was no quietude in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: and I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.

14 But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

But thanks be to God, who always procureth us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.

15 For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live and in them that perish:

16 to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?

to these, an odor of death unto death; and to those, an odor of life unto life. And who is adequate to these things!

17 For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God.