2 Corinthians 2

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
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, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 for if I cause you distress I am causing distress to my only possible source of joy.	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 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 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 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 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 did cause distress, he caused it not to me, but -- not to exaggerate -- in some degree to al ofyou.	5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6 The punishment already imposed by the majority was quite enough for such a person;	6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of 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 contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should 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 ye would confirm your love toward 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 might know the proof of you, whether ye 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 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 to avoid being outwitted by Satan, whose scheming we know only too well.	11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: 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 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 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 taking my leave of them, I went from thence 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 unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour 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 unto God a sweet savour of Christ, 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 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 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, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.