2 Corinthians 2

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

And I determined this with myself, that I would not again come to you in sadness.

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 should make you sad, who would make me joyful, unless he whom I had made sad?

3 And I wrote (to you *k*) this same thing, so that not having come grief (I may have *N(k)O*) 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 that very thing to you, lest when I came, those persons whom I ought to make joyful, should make me sad. For I have confidence concerning you, 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.

And in much affliction, and in anguish of heart, I wrote those things to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the exceeding love I have 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.

And if one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me only, but, -that the declaration may not bear too hard on you-in a measure, all of you.

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

And sufficient for him, is this rebuke proceeding from many:

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, ye ought to forgive him and console him; lest he who is such a man, should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

8 Therefore I exhort you to confirm toward him love.

I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him 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 it was for this also that I wrote to you, that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in every thing.

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

And whom ye forgive, I also forgive: for that which I forgave to any one, for your sakes I forgave it, in the presence of the Messiah;

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

lest Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices.

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

Moreover, when I came to Troas in announcing the Messiah, and a door was opened to me by 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.

there was no quietude in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: and 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,

But thanks be to God, who always procureth us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.

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

For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live and in them that perish:

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 these, an odor of death unto death; and to those, an odor of life unto life. And who is adequate to 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(k)O*) (*k*) God in Christ we speak.

For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God.