2 Corinthians 2
1 So I made up my mind 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 sorrowful, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have made sorrowful?
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?
3 That is why I wrote to you as I did, so that when I came I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence about you all that my joy would be yours.
And I wrote this same to you, lest, coming 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 I wrote to you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you sorrow, but to let you know the abundant love I have 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 Now if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure (not to put it too severely) to all of you.
But if any hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6 This punishment by the majority is enough for that person.
Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was inflicted] by many.
7 So you should forgive and comfort him instead, so that he will not be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.
So that on the other hand, ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love towards him.
9 I wrote to you because I wanted to test your character and see if you would be obedient in everything.
For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10 Now if you forgive anyone of anything, I also forgive him. For if I have forgiven anyone of anything, I have done it 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 so that we might not be exploited 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 to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for 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 But I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. So I took leave of the people there and went on to Macedonia.
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ everywhere.
Now thanks [be] to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
15 For we are a sweet fragrance of Christ ascending to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16 to the latter we are a smell of death leading to death, but to the former we are a fragrance of life leading to life. And who is equal to such a task?
To the one [we are] the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who [is] sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not like others who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak with sincerity in the presence of God, as men sent from God.
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.
