2 Corinthians 2:7-17 ▼

7 so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

8 for this reason, I call on you to confirm love to him,

9 for this also I wrote, that I might know your proof, whether you are obedient in regard to all things.

10 And to whom you forgive anything—I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you—in the person of Christ—[I forgive it,]

11 that we may not be over-reached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12 And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the LORD,

13 I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding my brother Titus, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

14 and to God [is] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is revealing through us in every place;

15 we are a refreshing fragrance to God because of Christ, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

16 to one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and who is sufficient for these things?

17 For we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity—but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we speak.