Chapter 2

But I made up my mind not to come to you again in sorrow.

For if I make you sad, who can gladden me, save the very one that is grieved by me?

And I wrote to you as I did, that when I come I may not have sorrow upon sorrow from those who ought to give me joy; for I trust in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

For I wrote to you in much affliction and anguish of heart, with many tears, not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the great love I have for you. He Pardons the Offender

Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in a measure (not to be too severe) all of you.

For such a one this punishment meted out by the many is sufficient.

On the contrary, then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perchance he be overwhelmed by too much sorrow.

Therefore I exhort you to assure him of your love for him.

For to this very end also did I write, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in all things.

Whom you pardon anything, I also pardon. Indeed, what I have forgiven---if I have forgiven anything---I have done for your sakes, in the person of Christ,

that we may not be defeated by Satan; for we are not unaware of his devices. Thanksgiving for Good News

Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, though I had there a great opportunity in the Lord,

I had no peace of mind, because I did not find Titus my brother. And so, bidding them farewell, I went on to Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus, manifesting through us the odor of his knowledge in every place.

For we are the fragrance of Christ for God, alike as regards those who are saved and those who are lost;

to these an odor that leads to death, but to those an odor that leads to life. And for such offices, who is sufficient?

We, at least, are not, as many others, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, as coming from God, we preach in Christ in God's presence.