¹ But I determined this within myself, that I would not come to you again in grief.

² For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me?

³ And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

⁴ For out of much trouble 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 more abundantly to you.

⁵ But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, except in part; so that I not overbear all of you.

⁶ This punishment by the majority is enough for such a one;

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

⁸ So I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

⁹ For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

¹⁰ But to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if I forgave anything, for your sakes I forgave it to him in the person of Christ;

¹¹ so that we should not be overreached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his devices.

¹² And, 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 went from there into Macedonia.

¹⁴ Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.

¹⁵ For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

¹⁶ to the one we are the savor of death to death, and to the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁷ For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.