RWebster - II Corinthians - 2

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

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

2:3  And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them by 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 to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

2:5  But if any hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not burden you all.

2:6  Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted by many.

2:7  So that on the contrary ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such an one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

2:8  Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

2:9  For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

2:10  To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ;

2:11  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2:12  Furthermore, when I came to Troas topreach the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

2:13  I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

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

2:15  For we are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

2:16  To the one we are the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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