1But I determined this in myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2For if I make you sorry: who is it that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3And I wrote this same pistel unto you, lest if I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice. Certainly this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.

5If any man hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made me sorry: but partly, lest I should grieve you all. 6It is sufficient unto the same man that he was rebuked of many. 7So that now contrarywise ye ought to forgive him and comfort him: lest that same should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness. 8Wherefore I exhort you, that love may have strength over him. 9For this cause verily did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye should be obedient in all things. 10To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also. And verily if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgave it for your sakes forgave I it, in the room of Christ, 11lest Satan should prevent us. For his thoughts are not unknown unto us.

12When I was come to Troada for Christe's gospel's sake (and a great door was opened unto me of the Lord) 13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but took my leave of them and went away into Macedonia.

14Thanks be unto God which always giveth us the victory in Christ, and openeth the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. 15For we are unto God the sweet savor of Christ, both among them that are saved, and also among them which perish: 16to the one part are we the savor of death unto death: unto the other part are we the savor of life unto life. And who is meet unto these things? 17For we are not as many are which chop and change with the word of God: but as they which speak of pureness, and as they which speak off God in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.