¹ But I decided this thing with myself not to come to you° again in sorrow.

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

³ And I wrote this same thing to you° in-order-that, if I came, I might not have sorrow from those of whom it was essential for me to rejoice for; I have confidence in all of you°, that my joy is the joy of all of you°.

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 in-order-that you° may know the love$ which I have even-more toward you°.

⁵ But if anyone has caused-sorrow, he has not caused-sorrow to me, but partially, that$ I may not burden you° all.

⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this penalty, the penalty by the many;

⁷ so-as instead, you° ought rather to forgive$ and to encourage him, lest such a one might be swallowed up with the sorrow he has even-more.

⁸ Hence, I encourage you° to validate your° love$ toward him.

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.

¹⁰ But to whom you° forgive$ anything, I forgive. For$ if I have also forgiven$ (in whom I have forgiven$ is because of you°), I have forgiven$ in the face of Christ;

¹¹ in-order-that we should not be taken-advantage of by the Adversary. For$ we are not ignorant of his devices.

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,

¹³ I had not had relief in my spirit because of not finding Titus my brother, but I bid farewell to them and went forth into Macedonia.

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

¹⁵ because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in the ones who are saved and in the ones who are perishing;

¹⁶ to which one is an aroma from death to death, and to which one is an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things?

¹⁷ For$ we are not as the rest who are peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in God’s sight.