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2:1  But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
2:2  For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?
2:3  And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.
2:4  For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
2:5  But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge you) all of you.
2:6  Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;
2:7  so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
2:8  Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.
2:9  For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.
2:10  But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;
2:11  that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.
2:12  Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord,
2:13  I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.
2:14  But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.
2:15  For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:
2:16  to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?
2:17  For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.