2 Corinthians 2
1 I decided that I would not visit you again in grief;
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
2 for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?
For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?
3 And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.
And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.
4 For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, through many tears; not to pain you, but to convince you of my love, my abundant love for you.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5 As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you - at least some of you (not to overstate the case).
But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
6 Sufficient for the offender is the punishment imposed by the majority;
Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many;
7 so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief.
so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
8 So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.
9 For this very purpose also I wrote you (before), that I might test you, to see if you were obedient in every respect.
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10 If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ,
But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the person of Christ;
11 for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12 Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened to me in the Lord,
Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
13 I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my brother. So I bade them good-bye and started off for Macedonia.
I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ’s triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.
But thanks be unto God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savour of his knowledge in every place.
15 I am Christ’s fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;
For we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, in them that are being saved, and in them that are perishing;
16 to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?
to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.
For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
