2 Corinthians 2
2But I determined this 1for my own sake, that I awould not come to you again in sorrow. 2For if I acause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? 3And this is the very thing I awrote you, so that bwhen I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having cconfidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all. 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I awrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.
Forgive and Love the Sinner
5But aif any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—1in order not to say too much—to all of you. 6Sufficient for such a one is athis punishment which was inflicted by the majority, 7so that on the contrary you should rather agraciously forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up by excessive sorrow. 8Therefore I encourage you to reaffirm your love for him. 9For to this end also aI wrote, so that I might bknow your proven character, whether you are cobedient in all things. 10But one whom you graciously forgive anything, I graciously forgive also. For indeed what I have graciously forgiven, if I have graciously forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes ain the presence of Christ, 11so that no advantage would be taken of us by aSatan, for bwe are not ignorant of his schemes.
12Now when I came to aTroas for the bgospel of Christ and when a cdoor was opened for me in the Lord, 13I ahad no rest for my spirit, not finding bTitus my brother. But csaying farewell to them, I went on to dMacedonia.
14aBut thanks be to God, who always bleads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and manifests through us the caroma of the dknowledge of Him in every place. 15For we are a afragrance of Christ to God among bthose who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 16ato the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is bsufficient for these things? 17For we are not like many, 1,apeddling the word of God, but bas from sincerity, but as from God, cin the sight of God, we speak in Christ.