2 Corinthians 2

2:1But I decided in myself this, not again to come in distress to you.

2:2For if I grieve you, then who is the one gladdening me unless it be the one being grieved by me?

2:3And I wrote to you this same thing, lest having come I should have distress of which it is necessary for me to rejoice over; relying upon you all, that my joy is all of you.

2:4For out of much affliction and conflict of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you should know the love which I have more exceedingly towards you.

2:5But if any has grieved, he has not grieved me, but in part; that I should not overburden you all.

2:6This reproach by the many is enough to such a one.

2:7So that on the other hand rather you are to grant favor and to comfort him, lest the more extra distress should swallow down such a one.

2:8Therefore I appeal to you to validate love unto him.

2:9For unto this also I wrote, that I should know your proof, if in everything you are subjects.

2:10But to whom you grant favor in anything, so also I; for also I, if anything have granted favor, to whom I have granted favor, it is for your sake in the person of Christ;

2:11that we should not be taken advantage of by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

2:12Now having come unto Troas for the good news of the Christ, also a door was opened to me in the Lord.

2:13I did not have relaxation in my spirit at my not finding Titus my brother; but being sent off by them, I went forth into Macedonia.

2:14But to God be favor at all times causing us to triumph in the Christ; and making manifest the scent of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

2:15For of Christ we are a pleasant aroma offering to God among the ones being delivered, and among the ones perishing;

2:16to some, a scent of death to death; but to some a scent of life to life. And for these things who is fit?

2:17For not are we as the rest peddling the word of God; but as from honesty, but as of God, before God in Christ we speak.