2 Corinthians 2
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2 Corinthians 2
1¶ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in grief.
2For if I make you grieve, who is he then that shall make me glad, but the same who is grieved by me?
3And 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.
4For 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.
6Sufficient to such a one is this reprehension, which was inflicted of many.
7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much grief.
8Therefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your charity toward him.
9For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10To 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,
11lest 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,
13I 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.
14Now 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.
15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in those that are saved and in those that perish;
16to 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?
17For 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.
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The Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB) by Ransom Press International
2 Corinthians 2
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1I have decided not to make my next visit to you so painful. 2If I make you feel bad, who would be left to cheer me up, except the people I had made to feel bad? 3The reason I want to be happy is to make you happy. I wrote as I did because I didn't want to visit you and be made to feel bad, when you should make me feel happy. 4At the time I wrote, I was suffering terribly. My eyes were full of tears, and my heart was broken. But I didn't want to make you feel bad. I only wanted to let you know how much I cared for you.
Forgiveness
5I don't want to be hard on you. But if one of you has made someone feel bad, I am not really the one who has been made to feel bad. Some of you are the ones. 6Most of you have already pointed out the wrong that person did, and that is punishment enough for what was done.
7When people sin, you should forgive and comfort them, so they won't give up in despair. 8You should make them sure of your love for them.
9I also wrote because I wanted to test you and find out if you would follow my instructions. 10I will forgive anyone you forgive. Yes, for your sake and with Christ as my witness, I have forgiven whatever needed to be forgiven. 11I have done this to keep Satan from getting the better of us. We all know what goes on in his mind.
12When I went to Troas to preach the good news about Christ, I found that the Lord had already prepared the way.#Ac 20.1. 13But I was worried when I didn't find my friend Titus there. So I left the other followers and went on to Macedonia.
14I am grateful that God always makes it possible for Christ to lead us to victory. God also helps us spread the knowledge about Christ everywhere, and this knowledge is like the smell of perfume. 15-16In fact, God thinks of us as a perfume that brings Christ to everyone. For people who are being saved, this perfume has a sweet smell and leads them to a better life. But for people who are lost, it has a bad smell and leads them to a horrible death.
No one really has what it takes to do this work. 17A lot of people try to get rich from preaching God's message. But we are God's sincere messengers, and by the power of Christ we speak our message with God as our witness.
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