2 Corinthians 2

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 I made up my mind, then, that my next visit to you would not be a painful one,	1 But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.
2 for if I cause you distress I am causing distress to my only possible source of joy.	2 For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?
3 Indeed, I wrote as I did precisely to spare myself distress when I visited you, from the very people whoshould have given me joy, in the conviction that for al of you my joy was yours too.	3 And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 I wrote to you in agony of mind, not meaning to cause you distress but to show you how very much loveI have for you.	4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.
5 If anyone did cause distress, he caused it not to me, but -- not to exaggerate -- in some degree to al ofyou.	5 And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all.
6 The punishment already imposed by the majority was quite enough for such a person;	6 To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many:
7 and now by contrast you should forgive and encourage him all the more, or he may be overwhelmed bythe extent of his distress.	7 So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 That is why I urge you to give your love towards him definite expression.	8 Wherefore, I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him.
9 This was in fact my reason for writing, to test your quality and whether you are completely obedient.	9 For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
10 But if you forgive anybody, then I too forgive that person; and whatever I have forgiven, if there isanything I have forgiven, I have done it for your sake in Christ's presence,	10 And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.
11 to avoid being outwitted by Satan, whose scheming we know only too well.	11 That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
12 When I came to Troas for the sake of the gospel of Christ and a door was opened for me there in theLord,	12 And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
13 I had no relief from anxiety, not finding my brother Titus there, and I said goodbye to them and wenton to Macedonia.	13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.
14 But, thanks be to God who always gives us in Christ a part in his triumphal procession, and through usis spreading everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of himself.	14 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15 To God we are the fragrance of Christ, both among those who are being saved and among those whoare on the way to destruction;	15 For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish.
16 for these last, the smel of death leading to death, but for the first, the smel of life leading to life. Whois equal to such a task?	16 To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?
17 At least we do not adulterate the word of God, as so many do, but it is in al purity, as envoys of Godand in God's presence, that we speak in Christ.	17 For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.