2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

1 But I determened this in my silfe yt I wolde not come agayne to you in hevines.

2 For yf I make you sorye who is it that shuld make me glad but the same which is made sory by me?

3 And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

4 For in great affliccion and anguysshe of hert I wrote vnto you with many teares: not to make you sory but that ye myght perceave the love which I have most specially vnto you.

5 If eny man hath caused sorow the same hath not made me sory but partely: lest I shuld greve you all.

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

7 So that now contrary wyse ye ought to forgeve him and comforte him: lest that same persone shuld be swalowed vp with over moche hevines.

8 Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him.

9 For this cause verely dyd I write that I myght knowe the profe of you whether ye shuld be obediet in all thinges.

10 To whom ye forgeve enythinge I forgeve also. And verely if I forgeve enythinge to whom I forgave it for youre sakes forgave I it in the roume of Christ

11 lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.

12 When I was come to Troada for Christes gospels sake (and a great dore was openned vnto me of the Lorde)

13 I had no rest in my sprete because I founde not Titus my brother: but toke my leave of them and went awaye into Macedonia.