2 Corinthians, Chapter 2

1. But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.    2. 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 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 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 hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.    6. Sufficient to such a man {is} this punishment, which {was inflicted} by many.    7. 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. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm {your} love towards him.    9. For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.    10. 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. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.    12. 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 rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.    14. 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 to God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:    16. 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 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.