2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

1 But I determined this in my selfe, yt I would not come againe to you in heauynesse.

2 For if I make you sorie, who is he yt shoulde make me glad, but the same which is made sorie by me?

3 And I wrote this same vnto you, lest when I came, I shoulde take heauynesse of them of whom I ought to reioyce. This confidence haue I toward you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.

4 For in great affliction and anguishe of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that ye shoulde be made sorie, but that ye myght perceaue the loue which I haue, most specially vnto you.

5 But yf any man hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made me sorie, but partly, lest I shoulde greeue you all.

6 It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many.

7 So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauynesse.

8 Wherfore I pray you, that you would confirme your loue towardes hym.

9 For this cause veryly did I write, that I myght knowe the profe of you, whether ye be obedient in all thynges.

10 To whom ye forgeue any thyng, I forgeue also. For if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the sight of Christe.

11 Lest Satan shoulde circumuent vs: For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.

12 Furthermore, when I came to Troada, to preache Christes Gospell, and a doore was opened vnto me of the lorde,

13 I had no rest in my spirite, because I founde not Titus my brother, but toke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.