| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree-- in order not to say too much-- to all of you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. |
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