1 But I determined this in myself, not to come again to you in sadness.
2 For if I make you sad, who then is he who makes me glad except he who is made sad by me?
3 And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.
4 For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.
5 But if any man has caused sadness, he has not caused me sadness, but in part (that I may not bear down) you all.
6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many,
7 so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
8 Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him.
9 For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
10 But to whom ye forgive anything, I too. For I also, whom I have forgiven (if anything), I have forgiven because of you in the presence of Christ,
11 so that we may not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his methods.
12 Now having come to Troas for the good-news of the Christ, and a door having been opened to me in Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, my not finding Titus my brother. But having departed from them, I went forth into Macedonia.
14 And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us.
15 Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing:
16 to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?
17 For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.
1 But I determened this in my silfe yt I wolde not come agayne to you in hevines.
2 For yf I make you sorye who is it that shuld make me glad but the same which is made sory by me?
3 And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all.
4 For in great affliccion and anguysshe of hert I wrote vnto you with many teares: not to make you sory but that ye myght perceave the love which I have most specially vnto you.
5 If eny man hath caused sorow the same hath not made me sory but partely: lest I shuld greve you all.
6 It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many.
7 So that now contrary wyse ye ought to forgeve him and comforte him: lest that same persone shuld be swalowed vp with over moche hevines.
8 Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him.
9 For this cause verely dyd I write that I myght knowe the profe of you whether ye shuld be obediet in all thinges.
10 To whom ye forgeve enythinge I forgeve also. And verely if I forgeve enythinge to whom I forgave it for youre sakes forgave I it in the roume of Christ
11 lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.
12 When I was come to Troada for Christes gospels sake (and a great dore was openned vnto me of the Lorde)
13 I had no rest in my sprete because I founde not Titus my brother: but toke my leave of them and went awaye into Macedonia.
14 Thankes be vnto God which alwayes geveth vs the victorie in Christ and openeth the saver of his knowledge by vs in every place.
15 For we are vnto God the swete savoure of Christ both amoge them that are saved and also amoge them which perisshe.
16 To the one parte are we ye savoure of deeth vnto deeth. And vnto the other parte are we the savoure of lyfe vnto lyfe. And who is mete vnto these thinges?
17 For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ.