Geneva1599 - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  Bvt I determined thus in my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse.

2:2  For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?

2:3  And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

2:4  For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you.

2:5  And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.

2:6  It is sufficient vnto the same man, that hee was rebuked of many.

2:7  So that nowe contrariwise yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest the same shoulde bee swalowed vp with ouermuch heauinesse.

2:8  Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.

2:9  For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.

2:10  To whome yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for verely if I forgaue any thing, to whome I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it in the sight of Christ,

2:11  Lest Satan should circumuent vs: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.

2:12  Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christs Gospell, and a doore was opened vnto me of the Lord,

2:13  I had no rest in my spirit, because I founde not Titus my brother, but tooke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.

2:14  Now thankes be vnto God, which alwaies maketh vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.

2:15  For wee are vnto God the sweete sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them which perish.

2:16  To the one we are the sauour of death, vnto death, and to the other the sauour of life, vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

2:17  For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.