2 Corinthians 2

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¹ For I decided not to come to you again in painful circumstances.	¹ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
² For if I inflict pain upon you, then who is there to cheer me except the one pained by me?	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 as I did so that when I came I might not be pained by those in whom I should have rejoiced, confident about all of you that my joy is that of all of you.	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 to you with many tears, not that you might be pained but that you might know the abundant love I have for you.	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 If anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure (not to exaggerate) to all of you.	⁵ But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
⁶ This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person,	⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
⁷ so that on the contrary you should forgive and encourage him instead, or else the person may be overwhelmed by excessive pain.	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 urge you to reaffirm your love for him.	⁸ Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
⁹ For this is why I wrote, to know your proven character, whether you were obedient in everything.	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 Whomever you forgive anything, so do I. For indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for you in the presence of Christ,	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 so that we might not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not unaware of his purposes.	¹¹ Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
¹² When I went to Troas for the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened for me in the Lord,	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 relief in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.	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 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ and manifests through us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.	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 the aroma of Christ for God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,	¹⁵ For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
¹⁶ to the latter an odor of death that leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads to life. Who is qualified for this?	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 like the many who trade on the word of God; but as out of sincerity, indeed as from God and in the presence of God, we speak in Christ.	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.