Chapter 2
2:1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
2nd Corinthians
2:2 For if I make you sorrowful, who then will there be to make me rejoice, but the one whom I have made sorrowful?
2:3 I wrote concerning this matter to you, so that when I came, I would not be grieved by those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is your joy.
2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.
2:5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but to some extent all of you, not to put it too severely.
2:6 This punishment which was inflicted by many on such a man is sufficient.
2:7 So on the contrary, you ought to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps he might be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
2:8 Therefore I ask you to confirm your love toward him.
2:9 For to this end I also wrote, so that I might know that you are proving yourselves by whether you are being obedient in all things.
2:10 Whomever you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if I forgave someone anything, for your sakes I forgave it in the Messiah,
2:11 lest Satan should take advantage of us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach the Messiah's gospel, and a door was opened to me by YASHUWAH,
2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother. So taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.
2:14 Now thanks be to Elohim who always causes us to triumph in the Messiah and through us reveals the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
2:15 For we are to Elohim a sweet fragrance of the Messiah among those who are saved and among those who perish.
2:16 To the one we are the fragrance of death, which brings death, and to the other the fragrance of life, which brings life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2:17 For we are not as many who corrupt the Word of Elohim: but as of sincerity, but as of Elohim, in the sight of Elohim we speak in the Messiah.