2 Corinthians 2

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

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

2 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?

3 And I wrote this very thing, so that, when I came, I would not have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them by whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

But if any hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not burden you all.

6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted by many.

7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

So that on the contrary ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such an one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

8 Therefore I urge you to confirm your love toward him.

Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

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

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

10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ;

11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I did not find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Now thanks be to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

For we are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

To the one we are the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17 For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.