1But I determined thus in myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2For if I make you sorry, who is he then that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3And I wrote this same thing unto you, lest when I came, I should take heaviness of them of whom I ought to rejoice: this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have, specially unto you.
5And if any hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made me sorry, but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.
6It is sufficient unto the same man, that he was rebuked of many.
7So that now contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest the same should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.
8Wherefore, I pray you, that you would confirm your love towards him.
9For this cause also did I write: that I might know the proof of you, whether ye would be obedient in all things.
10To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for verily if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the sight of Christ,
11Lest Satan should circumvent us: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.
12Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s Gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but took my leave of them, and went away into Macedonia.
14Now thanks be unto God, which always maketh us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
15For we are unto God the sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them which perish.
16To the one we are the savor of death, unto death, and to the other the savor of life, unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?
17For we are not as many, which make merchandise of the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ.