2 Corinthians 2
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1In fact, I made up my mind about this: I would not come to you on another painful visit.1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2For if I cause you pain, then who will cheer me other than the one being hurt by me?2For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn't have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours. 3And 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.
4For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart--not that you should be hurt, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you. 4For 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.
5If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree--not to exaggerate--to all of you. 5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6The punishment inflicted by the majority is sufficient for that person.6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, this one may be overwhelmed by excessive grief. 7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him. 8Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
9I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything. 9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
10If you forgive anyone, I do too. For what I have forgiven--if I have forgiven anything--it is for you in the presence of Christ. 10To 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;
11I have done this so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes. 11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, the Lord opened a door for me. 12Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
13I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus, but I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia. 13I 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.
14But thanks be to God, who always puts us on display in Christ and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.14Now 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.
15For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this? 16To 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?
17For we are not like the many who market God's message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God. 17For 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.
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