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2:1 But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again. 2:2 For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? 2:3 And this is the very thing I wrote you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be [the joy] of you all. 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you. 2:5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree-- in order not to say too much-- to all of you. 2:6 Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted by] the majority, 2:7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort [him], lest somehow such a one be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 2:8 Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm [your] love for him. 2:9 For to this end also I wrote that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. 2:10 But whom you forgive anything, I [forgive] also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [I did it] for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 2:11 in order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes. 2:12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord, 2:13 I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia. 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 2:16 to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? 2:17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.