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2:1 But I decided this thing for myself, that I wished not to come to you* again in sorrow.

2:2 For* if I make you* sorrowful, who is it who also makes me joyous except he who is made sorrowful from me?

2:3 And I wrote this same thing to you*, in order that, if I came, I might not have sorrow from them of whom it was essential to rejoice for; having confidence in all of you*, that my joy is the joy of all of you*.

2:4 For* I wrote to you* out of much affliction and dismay of heart through many tears; not in order that you* should be made sorrowful, but that you* may know the love* that I have even-more toward you*.


2:5 But if anyone has caused-sorrow, he has not caused-sorrow to me, (that* I may not burden him), but partially to you* all.

2:6 Sufficient to such a one is this penalty which was inflicted by the many;

2:7 so-that you*, rather instead, are to forgive* him and to encourage him, lest such a one might be swallowed up with his sorrow even-more.

2:8 Hence, I encourage you* to validate your* love* toward him.

2:9 For* I even wrote *for this reason; in order that I might know the trial of you*, if you* are obedient in all things.

2:10 But to whom you* forgive* anything, I also forgive *. For* what I have also forgiven*, (him of whom I have forgiven* is because of you*), I have forgiven * in the face of Christ;

2:11 in order that we should not be taken-advantage of by the Adversary; for* we are not ignorant of his devices.

2:12 Now after I came to Troas *for the good-news of the Christ and after a door had been opened to me in the Lord,

2:13 I had not had relief in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother, but having bid farewell to them, I went forth into Macedonia.


2:14 Now gratitude to God, who always makes us to triumph in the Christ and the aroma of his knowledge in every place is manifest through us.

2:15 Because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who are perishing;

2:16 to the one an aroma from death to death, but to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things?

2:17 For* we are not as the rest who are peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in God's sight, we speak in Christ.