2 Corinthians 2
¹ But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
² For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?
³ And I wrote this very thing, 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 made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
⁵ But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
⁷ so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
⁸ Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
¹⁰ But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the person of Christ;
¹¹ that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
¹² Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
¹³ I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.
¹⁴ But thanks be unto God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savour of his knowledge in every place.
¹⁵ For we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, in them that are being saved, and in them that are perishing;
¹⁶ to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
¹⁷ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.