Worsley - II Corinthians - 2

2:1  But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief:

2:2  for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me?

2:3  And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2:4  For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

2:5  And if any one hath caused grief, it hath grieved me only as to part of you, (that I may not overcharge you

2:6  all) though sufficient to such a one is the censure passed on him by many.

2:7  So that on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and comfort him, least such a one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

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

2:9  For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

2:10  And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also forgive it: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it him, to whom I did forgive it, for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan:

2:11  for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2:12  So that when I came to Troas on account of the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

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

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

2:15  For we are the sweet odor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, yea and in them that perish:

2:16  to these indeed we are an odor of death to death; to those an odor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2:17  For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.