2 Corinthians 2:1-13 ▼

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

2 For, if I make you sorry, who, indeed, is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

3 And I wrote this very thing, that I might not, when I came, have sorrow from those of whom I ought to have joy; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

5 But, if any one has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

6 Sufficient for such a one was the punishment inflicted by the many;

7 so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

8 Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

10 And to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for what I also have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—for your sakes have I forgiven it in the person of Christ;

11 that we might not be over-reached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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

13 I have had no relief in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but, bidding them adieu, I went forth into Macedonia.