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[1] But I determined thus in myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
[2] For if I make you sorry, who is he then that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
[3] And I wrote this same thing unto you, lest when I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice: this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
[4] For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have, specially unto you.
[5] And if any hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made me sorry, but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.
[6] It is sufficient unto the same man, that he was rebuked of many.
[7] So that now contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest the same should be swallowed up with over much heaviness.
[8] Wherefore, I pray you, that you would confirm your love towards him.
[9] For this cause also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye would be obedient in all things.
[10] To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for verily if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the sight of Christ,
[11] Lest Satan should circumvent us: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.
[12] Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's Gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
[13] I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but took my leave of them, and went away into Macedonia.
[14] Now thanks be unto God which always maketh us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
[15] For we are unto God the sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them which perish.
[16] To the one we are the savor of death, unto death, and to the other the savor of life, unto life, and who is sufficient for these things?
[17] For we are not as many, which make merchandise of the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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