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 maketh me glad , but the same which is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this same unto 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 unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5 But if any have caused grief , he hath 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 ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow .
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end also did I write , that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things .
10 To whom ye 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 unto 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 thence into Macedonia .
14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ , and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place .
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ , in them that are saved , and in them that perish :
16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto 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 .