2 Corinthians 2:1-8 ▼

1 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

2 For if I grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

3 And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.

4 For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

5 But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

6 Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

7 so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

8 Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.