2 Corinthians 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 which is made sorry * by me?
3. And I wrote * this same unto you, 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 out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote * unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved * , but that ye might know * the love which I have * more abundantly unto you.
5. But if any have 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 of many.
7. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive * him, and comfort * him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up * with overmuch sorrow.
8. Wherefore I beseech * you that ye would confirm * your love toward him.
9. For to this end also did I write * , that I might know * the proof of you, whether ye be * 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 forgave I 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 Christ's gospel,and a door was opened * unto me of 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 unto God, which always causeth * us to triumph * in Christ, and maketh manifest * the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15. For we are * unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved * , and in them that perish * :
16. To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17. For we are * not as many, which corrupt * the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we * in Christ.
