2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

1 For I decided this within myself, not to come to you? again in grief.

2 For if I grieve you?, then who is gladdening me except the one being grieved by me?

3 And I wrote this same thing so that, having come, I might not have grief from those for whom it was necessary for me to rejoice, having been confident in you? all, that my joy is of all of you?.

4 For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you? through many tears, not that you? might be grieved, but that you? might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you?.

5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part (so that I might not be severe) all of you?.

6 Sufficient to such a one is the punishment that is by the majority,

7 so that on the contrary, it is rather for you? to forgive and to comfort him, lest somehow such a one might be overwhelmed by more abundant grief.

8 Therefore I exhort you? to confirm love toward him.

9 For this indeed also I wrote, so that I might know the proof of you?, whether you? are obedient to everything.

10 Now to whomever you? forgive anything, I also do; and indeed to whom I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is on account of you? in the face of Christ,

11 so that we should not be exploited by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12 Now having come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, a door also having been opened to me in the Lord,

13 I have had no rest in my spirit in my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.