2 Corinthians 2
1 So I decided this for myself: not to come to you again in sorrow.
2 For if I make you sorrowful, who will make me glad except the one I have made sorrowful?
3 And I wrote just this so that, when I came, I would not be made sorrowful by those who ought to make me glad. For I trust you all, knowing that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For I wrote to you out of great distress and anguish of heart, with many tears—not to make you sorrowful, but so that you would know how abundantly I love you.
5 If anyone has caused sorrow, it is not me he has grieved, but, to some extent—so as not to say too much—all of you.
6 This rebuke given by the majority is enough for such a person.
7 So instead, you should forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
8 So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
9 For this is also why I wrote: to find out whether you would pass the test and be obedient in everything.
10 Anyone you forgive, I forgive too. For what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—I have done for your sake in the presence of Christ,
11 so that Satan might not outwit us, for we are not unaware of his schemes.
12 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, and a door had been opened for me in the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus, my brother. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ and, through us, makes the fragrance of knowing him known everywhere.
15 For we are the pleasing fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:
16 to some, an aroma from death leading to death; to others, an aroma from life leading to life. And who is qualified for these things?
17 For we are not like so many who peddle the word of God. Rather, in Christ we speak with sincerity, as from God and before God.
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