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2 Corinthians 2

For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.

Reaffirm Your Love

But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

Forgive the Sinner

Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure — not to put it too severely — to all of you.

But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,

Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.

For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

But to whom ye forgive anything, *I* also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sakes in [the] person of Christ;

so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.

Triumph in Christ

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,

Triumph in Christ

Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the] Lord,

my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

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