2 Corinthians 2

1 Actually, I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

Besides, I determined this with myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.

2 For if I make you sorrowful, then who will make me glad, besides the one whom I made sorrowful?

For if I should make you sorry, who then is he that could make me glad, unless the same who is made sorry by me?

3 And I wrote this very thing to you so as not to have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice, when I come, having confidence in you all that my joy is also yours.

Wherefore, I wrote to you this very thing, that, coming, I might not have sorrow from them in whom I ought to rejoice; being firmly persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 Now I wrote to you out of great distress and anguish of heart, with many tears, not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you might know the greatness of my love for you.

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love which I have most abundantly toward you.

5 So, if anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has all of you, to some extent—not to be too ‘heavy’.

Now, if a certain person has grieved me, he has not grieved me except by a part of you, that I may not lay a load on you all.

6 This punishment that was inflicted by the majority is sufficient to such a one,

Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the majority.

7 so that now, on the other side, you should forgive and comfort him, so that he not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

So that, on the other hand, you ought more willingly to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up by excessive grief.

8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love to him.

9 Now I also wrote to this end: to put you to the test, to see whether you are obedient in all things.

For to this end, also, I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

10 If you forgive anyone, I do too; further, if indeed I have forgiven anything to someone, I have done so for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

Now, to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive: and even I, if I have now forgiven anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it, in the person of Christ:

11 so that we not be exploited by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his intentions.

that we may not be overreached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Also, upon arriving in Troas for the Gospel of Christ, a door having been opened to me by Sovereign,

Moreover, when I came to Troas, in order to declare the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord;

13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; so taking leave of them I went on into Macedonia.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother: therefore, bidding them farewell, I went away into Macedonia.

14 Now thanks be to the God who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place.

Now, thanks be to God, who at all times causes us to triumph in Christ; and who, by us, diffuses the odor of the knowledge of him in every place:

15 Because we are the aroma of Christ for God, among those who are being saved and among those who are being wasted—

for we are, through God, a fragrant odor of Christ, among the saved and among the destroyed.

16 to these a smell of death into death, while to those a fragrance of life into life—and who is adequate for such things?

To these, indeed, we are the odor of death, ending in death; but to the others, the odor of life, ending in life: and who is competent to these things?

17 However, we are not like the rest who retail the word of God; rather, we speak in Christ, out of sincerity, as of God in His very presence.

However, we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but really from sincerity, yes, really from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.