RKJNT - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  But I determined that I would not make another painful visit to you.

2:2  For if I make you sorrowful, who will there be to make me glad, but the same one I made sorrowful?

2:3  And I wrote this same thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

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

2:5  But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but to some degree, not to put it too severely, to all of you.

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

2:7  So you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps he may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.

2:8  Therefore I urge you, that you would reaffirm your love for him.

2:9  For to this end I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in all things.

2:10  But whom you forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, was for your sakes in the presence of Christ;

2:11  Lest Satan should take advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

2:12  Now, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, a door was opened for me by the Lord,

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

2:14  Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and makes manifest through us the fragrance of the knowledge of him in every place.

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

2:16  To the one we are the aroma of death to death; and to the other the aroma of life to life. And who is equal to such a calling?

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