2 Corinthians 2

1But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.

1But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

2For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

2For if I grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

3And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

3And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.

4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.

4For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

5And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in part, that I may not burden you all.

5But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

6To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many.

6Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

7So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

7so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

8Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity towards him.

8Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

9For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

9For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

10And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ:

10But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sakes in [the] person of Christ;

11That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

11that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

12And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

12Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the] Lord,

13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

13I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

14Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

14But thanks [be] toGod, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

15For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.

15For we are a sweet odour of Christ toGod, in the saved and in those that perish:

16To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?

16to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?

17For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

17For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word ofGod; but as of sincerity, but as ofGod, beforeGod, we speak in Christ.