1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2For if I make you sorry, who is he, then, that maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me? 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 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.

5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part, that I may not burden {overcharge} you all. 6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted by the {of} many. 7So that on the contrary {contrariwise} ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8Wherefore, I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 10To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ, 11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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 found not Titus, my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from there {thence} into Macedonia. 14Now thanks be unto God, Who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of His knowledge by us in every place. 15For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16To the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? 17For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.