2 Corinthians 2

¹ Now I decide this with myself, not again to be coming to you in sorrow. ² For if I am making you sorry, who also, is gladdening me, except he who is made sorry by me? ³ And I write this same thing to you, lest, coming, I may have sorrow from those on whom it was binding to be causing me to rejoice; having confidence in you all, ⁴ for my joy is that of you all. For out of much affliction and pressure of heart I write to you, through many tears, not that you may be made sorrowful, but that you may know the love which I have for you more superabundantly. ⁵ Now if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not made me sorry, but in part (lest I may be burdening), you all. ⁶ Enough to such is this rebuke, which is by the majority. ⁷ So that, on the contrary, you are rather to deal graciously and console, lest somehow such may be swallowed up by the more excessive sorrow. ⁸ Wherefore I am entreating you to ratify your love to him. ⁹ For I write also for this, that I may know your testedness, if you are obedient in all things. ¹⁰ Now, with whom you are dealing graciously in anything, I, also. For in what I also have dealt graciously (if I have dealt graciously in anything), it is because of you in the face of Christ, ¹¹ lest we may be overreached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of the things he apprehends. ¹² Now, on coming to Troas for the evangel of Christ, and a door being open for me in the Lord, ¹³ I have no ease in my spirit at my not finding Titus, my brother, but taking leave of them, I came away into Macedonia. ¹⁴ Now thanks be to God, Who always gives us a triumph in Christ, and is manifesting the odor of His knowledge through us in every place, ¹⁵ for we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are being saved and in those who are perishing: ¹⁶ to these, indeed, an odor of death for death, yet to those an odor of life for life. And for this who is competent? ¹⁷ For we are not as the majority, who are peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God in Christ, are we speaking.