1For I judged this within myself, not again to come to you in grief.
2For if I myself grieve you, who is the one who gladdens me except the one being grieved by me?
3And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I had come I may not have grief from those of whom it was necessary for me to rejoice, having trusted in you all that my joy is of you all.
4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you would be grieved, but so that you would know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.
5But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part — that I may not burden you all.
6Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which is by the majority,
7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one may be overwhelmed by more excessive sorrow.
8Therefore I urge you to confirm love toward him.
9For this also I did write, so that I may know your proof, whether you are obedient to everything.
10Now to whomever you forgive anything, I also myself; and for what I myself have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for you in the presence of the Anointed One,
11so that we may not be outwitted by the adversary; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
12Now having come to Troas for the good news of the Anointed One, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,
13I have had no rest in my spirit in not finding Titus my brother; instead, when I had taken their leave, I went out to Macedonia.
14But thanks be to God, the One always leading us in triumph in the Anointed One and making manifest the fragrance of His knowledge through us in every place;
15for we are a sweet perfume of the Anointed One to God, in those being saved and in those perishing,
16to one indeed an odor from death to death, but to one a fragrance from life to life. And for these things who is sufficient?
17For we are not like the many peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God in the Anointed One we speak.