CPDV - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow.

2:2  For if I make you sorrowful, then who is it that can make me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me?

2:3  And so, I wrote this same thing to you, so that I might not, when I arrive, add sorrow to sorrow for those with whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you in all things, so that my joy may be entirely yours.

2:4  For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you.

2:5  But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you.

2:6  Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many.

2:7  So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.

2:8  Because of this, I beg you to confirm your charity toward him.

2:9  It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things.

2:10  But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes,

2:11  so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions.

2:12  And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord,

2:13  I had no rest within my spirit, because I was not able to find Titus, my brother. So, saying goodbye to them, I set out for Macedonia.

2:14  But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place.

2:15  For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing.

2:16  To the one, certainly, the fragrance is of death unto death. But to the other, the fragrance is of life unto life. And concerning these things, who is so suitable?

2:17  For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ.