1 ¶ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in grief.

2 F or if I make you grieve, who is he then that shall make me glad, but the same who is grieved by me?

3 A nd I wrote this same unto you, lest when I came, I should have grief from those of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 F or out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know how much more charity I have towards you.

5 ¶ But if any have caused me grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not put a burden on you all.

6 S ufficient to such a one is this reprehension, which was inflicted of many.

7 S o that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.

8 T herefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your charity toward him.

9 F or to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

10 T o whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also; for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,

11 l est Satan should deceive us, for we do not ignore his devices.

12 ¶ Having come to Troas for the gospel of the Christ, even though a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

14 N ow thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in the Christ and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15 F or we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in those that are saved and in those that perish;

16 t o the one we are the savour of death unto death and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17 F or we are not as many, false merchandisers of the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.