English Bible
2 Corinthians 2
Big screen- 1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
- 2For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
- 3And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
- 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that all of you should be grieved, but that all of you might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
- 5But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not burden you all.
- 6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
- 7So that contrariwise all of you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
- 8Wherefore I plead to you that all of you would confirm your love toward him.
- 9In order to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether all of you be obedient in all things.
- 10To whom all of you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
- 11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- 12Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
- 13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
- 14Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
- 15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
- 16To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
- 17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.