Common - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you.

2:2  For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

2:3  And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

2:4  For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

2:5  But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.

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

2:7  so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

2:8  I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.

2:9  For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.

2:10  Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

2:11  in order that Satan might gain no advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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

2:13  I still had no rest in my mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took my leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

2:14  But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

2:15  For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

2:16  to the one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2:17  For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God; but as men of sincerity, as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.