2 Corinthians 2

1 I judged (for *N+kO) within myself this not again in grief to you to come.

But I determined this in myself, that with sorrow I would not again come to you:

2 If for I myself grieve you again who (is *k) the [one] gladdening me except not the [one] being grieved by me?

for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

3 And I wrote (to you *k) this same thing, so that not having come grief (I may have *N+kO) from [those] of whom it was necessary me to rejoice having trusted in all you that my joy of all of you is.

And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 Out of for much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you may be grieved, but the love that you may know that I have more abundantly toward you.

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

5 If however anyone has caused grief, not me myself has he grieved but in part — that not I may burden all you.

But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure―not to speak harshly―all of you.

6 Sufficient to such a one [is] the punishment this which [is] by the majority,

Sufficient for such a one is the punishment, which was inflicted by the greater number:

7 so that on the contrary rather for you to forgive and to comfort [him], lest perhaps by more excessive sorrow may be overwhelmed such a one.

so that, on the other hand, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such a one should be swallowed up in too much sorrow.

8 Therefore I exhort you to confirm toward him love.

Wherefore, I exhort you to give him an assurance of your love.

9 For this indeed also did I write, so that I may know the proof of you, whether to everything obedient you are.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

10 To whomever now anything you forgive, I also myself; I also myself; and for I myself (to whom *N+kO) I have forgiven, if anything I have forgiven, [it is] for you in [the] presence of Christ,

Whom you forgive any thing, I forgive it also: for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, I have forgiven for your sake, in the person of Christ,

11 so that not we may be outwitted by Satan; not for of his schemes we are ignorant.

lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Having come now to Troas for the gospel of Christ also a door to me having been opened in [the] Lord,

And when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of the Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

13 not I have had rest in the spirit of mine in the not finding my Titus the brother of mine, instead having taken leave of them I went out to Macedonia.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.

14 However to God [be] thanks to the [One] always leading in triumph us in Christ and the fragrance of the knowledge of Him making manifest through us in every place,

Now, thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and sheds in every place, by us, the fragrance of the knowledge of himself.

15 For of Christ a sweet perfume we are to God in those being saved and in those perishing,

For, through God, we are a sweet odor of Christ, among the saved, and among the lost:

16 to one indeed an odor (from *no) death to death, to one however a fragrance (from *no) life to life. And for these things who [is] sufficient?

to the one, we are the odor of death ending in death; to the other, the odor of life ending in life: and who is sufficient for these things?

17 Not for we are like the (many *NK+O) peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, (before *N+kO) God in Christ we speak.

For we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.