[1] But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
[2] For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
[3] And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them 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 to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.
[5] But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
[6] Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
[7] So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
[8] Why I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
[9] For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
[10] To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
[11] Lest Satan should get an advantage of 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 to me of 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 there into Macedonia.
[14] Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the aroma of his knowledge by us in every place.
[15] For we are to God a sweet smell of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
[16] To the one we are the smell of death to death; and to the other the smell of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
[17] For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.