Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians (WEB)
2:1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 2:2For if I make
you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me? 2:3And I wrote this very
thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice;
having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all. 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of
heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know
the love that I have so abundantly for you. 2:5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow,
not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. 2:6Sufficient to such a one is this
punishment which was inflicted by the many; 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive
him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive
sorrow. 2:8Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. 2:9For to this end I also wrote, that
I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. 2:10Now I also forgive
whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one
for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 2:11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for
we are not ignorant of his schemes. 2:12Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and
when a door was opened to me in the Lord, 2:13I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find
Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia. 2:14But thanks be to
God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his
knowledge in every place. 2:15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved,
and in those who perish; 2:16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma
from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the
word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.