OTNT

2 Cor 2


2:1 So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you.

2:2 For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved?

2:3 I wrote as I did so that when I came I should not be distressed by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy.

2:4 For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

2:5 If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you, to some extent–not to put it too severely.

2:6 The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient for him.

2:7 Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

2:8 I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.

2:9 The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

2:10 If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven–if there was anything to forgive–I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,

2:11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

2:12 Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me,

2:13 I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-by to them and went on to Macedonia.

2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.

2:15 For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

2:16 To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?

2:17 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.

2:1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

2:2 For if I cause you sorrow, who then is the one who makes me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me?

2:3 And I wrote this very thing to you that when I come I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me 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 through many tears, not that you would be made sorrowful but that you would know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

2:5 But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me to sorrow, but in part (lest I lay too heavy a burden) all of you.

2:6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment by the majority,

2:7 So that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

2:8 Therefore I exhort you to confirm your love toward him.

2:9 For to this end also I wrote, that I might know your approvedness, whether you are obedient in all things.

2:10 But whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for also what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sake in the person of Christ;

2:11 That we may not be taken advantage of by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was open to me in the Lord,

2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, for I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ and manifests the savor of the knowledge of Him through us in every place.

2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who are perishing:

2:16 To some a savor out of death unto death, and to the others a savor out of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2:17 For we are not like the many, adulterating the word of God for profit; but as out of sincerity, but as out of God, before God we speak in Christ.