2 Corinthians Chapter 2
2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in
heaviness.
2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same
which is made sorry by me?
2:3 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.
2:4 For 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.
2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I
may not overcharge you all.
2:6
Sufficient to such a man
is
this punishment, which
was inflicted
of many.
2:7 So that contrariwise ye
ought
rather to forgive
him
, and comfort
him,
lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm
your
love toward him.
2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you,
whether ye be obedient in all things.
2:10 To 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;
2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his
devices.
2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to
preach
Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2:13 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.
2:14 Now 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.
2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and
in them that perish:
2:16 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?
2:17 For 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.