2 Cor. 2:1 |
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. |
2 Cor. 2:2 |
For if I cause you sorrow, who then is the one who makes me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me? |
2 Cor. 2:3 |
And I wrote this very thing [to you] that when I come I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is [the joy] of you all. |
2 Cor. 2:4 |
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you would be made sorrowful but that you would know the love which I have more abundantly toward you. |
2 Cor. 2:5 |
But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me to sorrow, but in part (lest I lay [too heavy] a burden) all of you. |
2 Cor. 2:6 |
Sufficient for such a one is this punishment by the majority, |
2 Cor. 2:7 |
So that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort [him,] lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow. |
2 Cor. 2:8 |
Therefore I exhort you to confirm [your] love toward him. |
2 Cor. 2:9 |
For to this end also I wrote, that I might know your approvedness, whether you are obedient in all things. |
2 Cor. 2:10 |
But whom you forgive anything, I also [forgive;] for also what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sake in the person of Christ; |
2 Cor. 2:11 |
That we may not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. |
2 Cor. 2:12 |
Furthermore, when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was open to me in the Lord, |
2 Cor. 2:13 |
I had no rest in my spirit, for I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia. |
2 Cor. 2:14 |
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ and manifests the savor of the knowledge of Him through us in every place. |
2 Cor. 2:15 |
For we are a fragrance of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who are perishing: |
2 Cor. 2:16 |
To some a savor out of death unto death, and to the others a savor out of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? |
2 Cor. 2:17 |
For we are not like the many, adulterating the word of God for profit; but as out of sincerity, but as out of God, before God we speak in Christ. |