2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

1 And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness.

2 For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me.

3 And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

5 And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all.

6 Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many.

7 So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.

8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.

9 For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

10 And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;

11 That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

12 And coming to Troas for the good news of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

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