2Corinthians - Chapter 2 | New King James Version

  • 1. But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
  • 2. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?
  • 3. And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
  • 4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
  • 5. But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent--not to be too severe.
  • 6. This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,
  • 7. so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
  • 8. Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
  • 9. For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.
  • 10. Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven* that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
  • 11. lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
  • 12. Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
  • 13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.
  • 14. Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
  • 15. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
  • 16. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
  • 17. For we are not, as so many,* peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.
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