2 Corinthians 2

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

So I made up my mind that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

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 make you sorrowful, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have made sorrowful?

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.

That is why I wrote to you as I did, so that when I came I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence about you all that my joy would be yours.

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 I wrote to you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you sorrow, but to let you know the abundant 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.

Now if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure (not to put it too severely) to all of you.

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

This punishment by the majority is enough for that person.

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 you should forgive and comfort him instead, so that he will not be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.

8 Therefore I exhort you to confirm toward him love.

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

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

I wrote to you because I wanted to test your character and see if you would be obedient in everything.

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,

Now if you forgive anyone of anything, I also forgive him. For if I have forgiven anyone of anything, I have done it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

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

so that we might not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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

Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for 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.

But I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. So I took leave of the people there and went on to 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 leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ everywhere.

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

For we are a sweet fragrance of Christ ascending to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

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 latter we are a smell of death leading to death, but to the former we are a fragrance of life leading to life. And who is equal to such a task?

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 are not like others who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak with sincerity in the presence of God, as men sent from God.