Anderson - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  But I determined this in myself, that with sorrow I would not again come to you:

2:2  for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

2:3  And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2:4  For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

2:5  But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure―not to speak harshly―all of you.

2:6  Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the greater number:

2:7  so that, on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up in too much sorrow.

2:8  Wherefore, I exhort you to give him an assurance of your love.

2:9  For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

2:10  Whom you forgive any thing, I forgive it also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, I have forgiven for your sake, in the person of Christ,

2:11  lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2:12  And when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of the Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

2:13  I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.

2:14  Now, thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and sheds in every place, by us, the fragrance of the knowledge of himself.

2:15  For, through God, we are a sweet odor of Christ, among the saved, and among the lost:

2:16  to the one, we are the odor of death ending in death; to the other, the odor of life ending in life: and who is sufficient for these things?

2:17  For we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.