2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

1 BUT I prescribed to myself this rule, not to come again to you with sorrow.

2 For if I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorrowful by me?

3 And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

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 towards you.

5 Now if any person hath given cause for grief, he hath not grieved me merely , but partly all of you; that I may add no farther burden.

6 Sufficient for such person is that chastisement which hath been inflicted by the majority of you.

7 Wherefore, on the contrary, ye rather ought to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up with excess of sorrow.

8 Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him.

9 For to this end also have I written, that I may know by this proof of you if ye are obedient in all things.

10 But to whomsoever ye forgive any thing, so do I; and if I forgive any thing, to whom I forgive, for your sakes I do it, in the person of Jesus Christ,

11 that no advantage be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 But when I came to Troas to preach the Gospel of Christ, though a door was opened unto me by the Lord,

13 I had no test in my spirit on my not finding there Titus my brother: so taking my leave of them I went forth unto Macedonia.