2 Corinthians 2:3-17 ▼

3 And I wrote this same thing so that, having come, I might not have grief from those for whom it was necessary for me to rejoice, having been confident in you? all, that my joy is of all of you?.

4 For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you? through many tears, not that you? might be grieved, but that you? might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you?.

5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part (so that I might not be severe) all of you?.

6 Sufficient to such a one is the punishment that is by the majority,

7 so that on the contrary, it is rather for you? to forgive and to comfort him, lest somehow such a one might be overwhelmed by more abundant grief.

8 Therefore I exhort you? to confirm love toward him.

9 For this indeed also I wrote, so that I might know the proof of you?, whether you? are obedient to everything.

10 Now to whomever you? forgive anything, I also do; and indeed to whom I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is on account of you? in the face of Christ,

11 so that we should not be exploited by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12 Now having come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, a door also having been opened to me in the Lord,

13 I have had no rest in my spirit in my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.

14 But thanks be to God, the One always leading us in triumph in Christ and making manifest the fragrance of the knowledge of Him through us in every place.

15 For we are a sweet smell of Christ to God among those being saved and among those perishing:

16 to one indeed a smell from death to death, but to one a smell from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17 For we are not like the many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity—but as from God—we speak before God in Christ.