ABU(i)
1 AND I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he that makes me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this very thing to you, 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 affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.
5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has not caused sorrow to me, but in part (that I be not too severe on him) to you all.
6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment, which was inflicted by the many.
7 So that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10 To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,
11 that no advantage might be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12 And when I came to Troas to preach the good news of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest by us in every place the savor of the knowledge of him.
15 Because we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
16 to the one a savor of death unto death, to the other a savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.