| 2:1 | But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. |
| 2:2 | For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me? |
| 2:3 | And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them by whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all. |
| 2:4 | For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you. |
| 2:5 | But if any hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not burden you all. |
| 2:6 | Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was inflicted] by many. |
| 2:7 | So that on the contrary ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such an one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow. |
| 2:8 | Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him. |
| 2:9 | For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. |
| 2:10 | To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [I forgave it] in the person of Christ; |
| 2:11 | Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. |
| 2:12 | Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach] the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, |
| 2:13 | I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia. |
| 2:14 | Now thanks [be] to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. |
| 2:15 | For we are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: |
| 2:16 | To the one [we are] the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to life. And who [is] sufficient for these things? |
| 2:17 | For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. |
2 Corinthians 2 - Revised Webster Version
