2 Corinthians 2

¹ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. ² For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? ³ And 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. ⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

⁵ But if any have caused grief, he hath ^[1]caused grief, not to me, ^[2]but in part (that I may not overcharge) to you all. ⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this ^[3]punishment, which was inflicted of many. ⁷ So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. ⁸ Wherefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love towards him. ⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. ¹⁰ To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it ^[4]in the person of Christ; ¹¹ lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

¹² Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, ¹³ I 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. ¹⁴ Now thanks be unto God, which always ^[5]leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. ¹⁵ For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: ¹⁶ to 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? ¹⁷ For we are not as ^[6]the others, which ^[7]corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Notes

2:5 caused grief, not to me: or, not grieved me ↩
2:5 but in part (that I may not overcharge) to you all: or, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all ↩
2:6 punishment: or, censure ↩
2:10 in the person: or, in the sight ↩
2:14 leadeth us in triumph: or, causeth us to triumph ↩
2:17 the others: TR many ↩
2:17 corrupt: or, deal deceitfully with ↩