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So I decided that I would not bring you grief with another painful visit.
Reaffirm Your Love
But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
For if I cause you grief, who will make me glad? Certainly not someone I have grieved.
For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
That is why I wrote to you as I did, so that when I do come, I won’t be grieved by the very ones who ought to give me the greatest joy. Surely you all know that my joy comes from your being joyful.
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.
I wrote that letter in great anguish, with a troubled heart and many tears. I didn’t want to grieve you, but I wanted to let you know how much love 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.
Forgiveness for the Sinner
I am not overstating it when I say that the man who caused all the trouble hurt all of you more than he hurt me.
But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.
Most of you opposed him, and that was punishment enough.
Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;
Now, however, it is time to forgive and comfort him. Otherwise he may be overcome by discouragement.
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 urge you now to reaffirm your love for him.
Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.
I wrote to you as I did to test you and see if you would fully comply with my instructions.
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.
When you forgive this man, I forgive him, too. And when I forgive whatever needs to be forgiven, I do so with Christ’s authority for your benefit,
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 Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.
that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.
When I came to the city of Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord opened a door of opportunity for me.
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,
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,
But I had no peace of mind because my dear brother Titus hadn’t yet arrived with a report from you. So I said good-bye and went on to Macedonia to find him.
I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.
Ministers of the New Covenant
But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume.
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.
Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing.
For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:
To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this?
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 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.