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1 But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief: 2 for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me? 3 And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you. 5 And if any one hath caused grief, it hath grieved me only as to part of you, (that I may not overcharge you 6 all) though sufficient to such a one is the censure passed on him by many. 7 So that on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and comfort him, least such a one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love to him. 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. 10 And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also forgive it: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it him, to whom I did forgive it, for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan: 11 for we are not ignorant of his devices. 12 So that when I came to Troas on account of the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord, 13 yet I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother there; but taking my leave of them, I went away into Macedonia. 2 Corinthians 2:1-13, Worsley New Testament. Public domain.
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