¹ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. ² For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? ³ And I wrote this same to you, in case, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of who I should to rejoice; 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 you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you. ⁵ But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. ⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. ⁷ So that contrariwise you should rather to forgive him, and comfort him, in case perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. ⁸ why I beg you that you would confirm your love toward him. ⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things. ¹⁰ + To who you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for+ if I forgave any thing, to who I forgave it, for your sakes+ forgave I it in the person of Christ; ¹¹ unless Satan+ should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. ¹² Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me of the Lord, ¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia. ¹⁴ Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes reveal the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. ¹⁵ For we are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: ¹⁶ To the one we are the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷ For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.