2Corinthians - Chapter 2 | American Standard Version

  • 1. But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
  • 2. For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?
  • 3. And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is {cf15i the joy} of you all.
  • 4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.
  • 5. But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
  • 6. Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was {cf15i inflicted} by the many;
  • 7. so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
  • 8. Wherefore I beseech you to confirm {cf15i your} love toward him.
  • 9. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
  • 10. But to whom ye forgive anything, I {cf15i forgive} also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes {cf15i have I forgiven it} in the presence of Christ;
  • 11. that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
  • 12. Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
  • 13. I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.
  • 14. But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.
  • 15. For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;
  • 16. to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
  • 17. For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
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