2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

1 But I determined this in myself, that with sorrow I would not again come to you:

2 for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

3 And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

5 But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure—not to speak harshly—all of you.

6 Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the greater number:

7 so that, on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up in too much sorrow.

8 Wherefore, I exhort you to give him an assurance of your love.

9 For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

10 Whom you forgive any thing, I forgive it also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, I have forgiven for your sake, in the person of Christ,

11 lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 And when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of the Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.