2 Corinthians 2

1 But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief: 2 for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me? 3 And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all you, that my joy is of you all. 4 For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you. 5 And if any hath caused grief, it hath grieved me only as to part (that I may not overcharge you 6 all) sufficient to such a one is the censure by many. 7 So that on the contrary, ye rather to forgive and comfort least such a one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him. 9 For to this also did I write, that I might have proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all 10 And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also for if I have forgiven any thing, to whom I did forgive for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan: 11 for we are not ignorant of his devices. 12 So that when I came to Troas on account of the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in 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 away into Macedonia. 14 But thanks to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and spreadeth the odor of his knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are the sweet odor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 to these indeed an odor of death to death; to those an odor of life unto life. And who sufficient for these 17 For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.