2 Corinthians 2
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1So I decided that my next visit to you would not be another visit to make you sad. 2If I make you sad, who will make me happy? Only you can make me happy—you whom I made sad. 3I wrote you a letter for this reason: that when I came to you I would not be made sad by the people who should make me happy. I felt sure of all of you. I felt sure that you would share my joy. 4When I wrote to you before, I was very troubled and unhappy in my heart. I wrote with many tears. I did not write to make you sad, but to let you know how much I love you.
Forgive the Sinner
5Someone there among you has caused sadness. He caused this not to me, but to all of you—I mean he caused sadness to all in some way. (I do not want to make it sound worse than it really is.) 6The punishment that most of you gave him is enough for him. 7But now you should forgive him and comfort him. This will keep him from having too much sadness and giving up completely. 8So I beg you to show him that you love him. 9This is why I wrote to you. I wanted to test you and see if you obey in everything. 10If you forgive someone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if I had anything to forgive—I forgave it for you, and Christ was with me. 11I did this so that Satan would not win anything from us. We know very well what Satan’s plans are.
Paul’s Concern in Troas
12I went to Troas to preach the Good News of Christ. The Lord gave me a good opportunity there. 13But I had no peace because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye and went to Macedonia.
Victory Through Christ
14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in victory through Christ. God uses us to spread his knowledge everywhere like a sweet-smelling perfume. 15Our offering to God is this: We are the sweet smell of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are being lost. 16To those who are lost, we are the smell of death that brings death. But to those who are being saved, we are the smell of life that brings life. So who is able to do this work? 17We do not sell the word of God for a profit as many other people do. But in Christ we speak the truth before God. We speak as men sent from God.
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Qorintiyim Bĕt (2 Corinthians) 2
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1And I decided this within myself, not to come to you again in sadness.
2For if I make you sad, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sad by me?
3And I wrote to you as I did, so that having come, I might not have sadness over those from whom I should have joy, trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.
4For out of much pressure and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be sad, but that you might know the love which I so richly have for you.
5But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not made me sad, but in some degree you all – not to be too harsh.
6For such a one this punishment, by the many, is sufficient,
7so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such a one be swallowed up with too much sadness.
8So I appeal to you to confirm your love to him.
9Besides, I wrote for this purpose also, that I might know the proof of you, if you are obedient in all matters.
10And whom you forgive any matter, I do also. For indeed, if I have forgiven any matter, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the sight of Messiah,
11lest Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.
12And when I came to Troas for the Good News of Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Master,
13I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titos my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went on to Makedonia.
14But thanks be to Elohim who always leads us on, to overcome in Messiah, and manifests through us the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
15Because we are to Elohim the fragrance of Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
16To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?
17For we are not, as so many, adulterating the Word of Elohim for gain – but as of sincerity, but as from Elohim, in the sight of Elohim, we speak in Messiah.
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