2 Corinthians 2

1 That's why I decided that I would avoid another sad visit with you.

I judged (for *N(k)O*) within myself this not again in grief to you to come.

2 For if I make you sad, who will be there to make me happy? It won't be those I've made sad!

If for I myself grieve you again who (is *k*) the [one] gladdening me except not the [one] being grieved by me?

3 That's why I wrote what I did, so that I wouldn't be sad over those who should make me happy. I was so sure that all of you would share in my happiness.

And I wrote (to you *k*) this same thing, so that not having come grief (I may have *N(k)O*) from [those] of whom it was necessary me to rejoice having trusted in all you that my joy of all of you is.

4 I was crying many tears when I wrote to you, in great anguish and with a heavy heart—not to make you sad, but so you would know how much love I have for you.

Out of for much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you may be grieved, but the love that you may know that I have more abundantly toward you.

5 Not to put it too strongly, but the person caused more pain to all of you than to me.

If however anyone has caused grief, not me myself has he grieved but in part — that not I may burden all you.

6 This person suffered enough punishment from the majority of you,

Sufficient to such a one [is] the punishment this which [is] by the majority,

7 so now you should forgive him and be kind to him. Otherwise he may sink into despair.

so that on the contrary rather for you to forgive and to comfort [him], lest perhaps by more excessive sorrow may be overwhelmed such a one.

8 So I urge you to publicly affirm your love towards him.

Therefore I exhort you to confirm toward him love.

9 That's why I wrote: so I could discoverer your true character and whether you're doing everything you were told to do.

For this indeed also did I write, so that I may know the proof of you, whether to everything obedient you are.

10 Anyone you forgive, I forgive too. What I have forgiven, whatever it may be, I have forgiven before Christ for your benefit.

To whomever now anything you forgive, I also myself; I also myself; and for I myself (to whom *N(k)O*) I have forgiven, if anything I have forgiven, [it is] for you in [the] presence of Christ,

11 In this way Satan will not be able to take us in, because we know the tricks he thinks up.

so that not we may be outwitted by Satan; not for of his schemes we are ignorant.

12 Now when I arrived in Troas to spread the good news of Christ, the Lord opened a door of opportunity for me.

Having come now to Troas for the gospel of Christ also a door to me having been opened in [the] Lord,

13 But my mind wasn't at peace because I couldn't find my brother Titus. So I said goodbye and went over to Macedonia.

not I have had rest in the spirit of mine in the not finding my Titus the brother of mine, instead having taken leave of them I went out to Macedonia.

14 But praise be to God, who always leads us in a triumphal procession in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet scent of his knowledge wherever we go!

However to God [be] thanks to the [One] always leading in triumph us in Christ and the fragrance of the knowledge of Him making manifest through us in every place,

15 We are like a fragrance of Christ to God, rising up from among those who are being saved as well as those who are dying.

For of Christ a sweet perfume we are to God in those being saved and in those perishing,

16 To those who are dying it is the smell of decay, while to those who are being saved it is the scent of life! But who is up to such an assignment?

to one indeed an odor (from *no*) death to death, to one however a fragrance (from *no*) life to life. And for these things who [is] sufficient?

17 We are not like the majority who trade in the word of God for profit. Quite the opposite: we are sincere in sharing the word of God in Christ, knowing God is watching us.

Not for we are like the (many *NK(O)*) peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, (before *N(k)O*) (*k*) God in Christ we speak.