2 Corinthians 2

For I decided this for myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

For if I myself grieve you, then who {is} the one cheering me up except the one being grieved by me? \*

And I wrote this same thing so that, having come, I might not have sorrow from {those in} whom it is necessary for me to rejoice, having become confident in all of you that my joy is {the joy} of all of you.

For I wrote to you out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, through many tears, not so that you would be grieved, but so that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you. \*

But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved {only} me, but in part—in order that I might not burden all of you.

This punishment on such a {person} by the majority {is} sufficient,

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort {him} {so that} such a {person} might not be overwhelmed in his excessive sorrow. \*

So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

Indeed, I also wrote for this reason: so that I might know your proof, whether you are obedient in all things. \*

Now to whomever you forgive anything, I also {forgive}—for indeed, the one I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) {is} for your sake in the presence of Christ

so that we would not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. \*

Now having come to Troas and a door for the gospel of Christ having been opened to me in the Lord,

I had no relief in my spirit, as I did not find my brother Titus there. So having said farewell to them, I went on to Macedonia. \*

But thanks {be} to God, always leading us in triumphal procession in Christ and making known through us the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.

For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among the ones being saved and among the ones perishing— \*

to the ones, indeed, an aroma from death to death, but to the {others}, an aroma from life to life. And for these things, who {is} sufficient?

For we are not like the many peddling the word of God; but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the presence of God in Christ. \*