[1] But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. [2] For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then who maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me? [3] And I wrote as I did unto you lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those of whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. [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 for you. [5] But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part" that I may not overburden you all. [6] Sufficient to such a man is this censure, which was inflicted by many, [7] so that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. [8] Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him. [9] For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof from you, whether ye be obedient in all things. [10] To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, I forgave it for your sakes in the person of Christ, [11] lest Satan should get an advantage over us. For we are not ignorant of his devices. [12] Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's Gospel, and a door was opened unto me by the Lord, [13] I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. [14] Now thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ and who maketh manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place. [15] For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are saved and in those who perish: [16] to the one we are the savor of death unto death, and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? [17] For we are not as many who corrupt the Word of God; but as out of sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
