[2 Corinthians 2]

 

             ^2:1 But I decided this thing with myself not to come to you^° again in sorrow. ^2:2 For^* if I make you^° sorrowful, who is it who also makes me joyous except he who is made sorrowful from me? ^2:3 And I wrote this same thing to you^° in-order-that, if I came, I might not have sorrow from those of whom it was essential for me to rejoice for; I have confidence in all of you^°, that my joy is the joy of all of you^°. ^2:4 For^* I wrote to you^° out-of much affliction and dismay of heart through many tears; not in-order-that you^° should be made sorrowful, but in-order-that you^° may know the love^* which I have even-more toward you^°.

 

             ^2:5 But if anyone has caused-sorrow, he has not caused-sorrow to me, but partially, that^* I may not burden you^° all. ^2:6 Sufficient to such a one is this penalty, the penalty by the many; ^2:7 so-as instead, you^° ought rather to forgive^* and to encourage him, lest such a one might be swallowed up with the sorrow he has even-more. ^2:8 Hence, I encourage you^° to validate your^° love^* toward him. ^2:9 For^* I even wrote ^*for this reason; in-order-that I might know the trial of you^°, if you^° are obedient^* in all things. ^2:10 But to whom you^° forgive^* anything, I forgive. For^* if I have also forgiven^* (in whom I have forgiven^* is because of you^°), I have forgiven^* in the face of Christ; ^2:11 in-order-that we should not be taken-advantage of by the Adversary. For^* we are not ignorant of his devices.

 

             ^2:12 Now after I came to Troas ^*for the good-news of the Christ and after a door had been opened to me in the Lord, ^2:13 I had not had relief in my spirit because of not finding Titus my brother, but I bid farewell to them and went forth into Macedonia.

 

             ^2:14 Now gratitude is to God, who always makes us to triumph in the Christ and who is manifesting the aroma of his knowledge in every place through us, ^2:15 because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in the ones who are saved and in the ones who are perishing; ^2:16 to which one is an aroma from death to death, and to which one is an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things? ^2:17 For^* we are not as the rest who are peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in God’s sight.