Haweis - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  BUT I prescribed to myself this rule, not to come again to you with sorrow.

2:2  For if I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorrowful by me?

2:3  And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2:4  For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

2:5  Now if any person hath given cause for grief, he hath not grieved me merely, but partly all of you; that I may add no farther burden.

2:6  Sufficient for such person is that chastisement which hath been inflicted by the majority of you.

2:7  Wherefore, on the contrary, ye rather ought to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up with excess of sorrow.

2:8  Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him.

2:9  For to this end also have I written, that I may know by this proof of you if ye are obedient in all things.

2:10  But to whomsoever ye forgive any thing, so do I; and if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgive, for your sakes I do it, in the person of Jesus Christ,

2:11  that no advantage be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2:12  But when I came to Troas to preach the Gospel of Christ, though a door was opened unto me by the Lord,

2:13  I had no test in my spirit on my not finding there Titus my brother: so taking my leave of them I went forth unto Macedonia.

2:14  But thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

2:15  For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those who are saved, and in those who perish.

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

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