Sept. 22
2 Corinthians 2
2Co 2:1 But I
determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in
sorrow.
2Co 2:2 For if I make
you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?
2Co 2:3 And I wrote
this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow
from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all,
that my joy would be shared by all of you.
2Co 2:4 For out of much
affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not
that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that
I have so abundantly for you.
2Co 2:5 But if any has
caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I
not press too heavily) to you all.
2Co 2:6 Sufficient to
such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
2Co 2:7 so that on the
contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any
means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
2Co 2:8 Therefore I beg
you to confirm your love toward him.
2Co 2:9 For to this end
I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are
obedient in all things.
2Co 2:10 Now I also
forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven
anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of
Christ,
2Co 2:11 that no
advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of
his schemes.
2Co 2:12 Now when I
came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened
to me in the Lord,
2Co 2:13 I had no
relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus, my brother, but
taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
2Co 2:14 Now thanks be
to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through
us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
2Co 2:15 For we are a
sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those
who perish;
2Co 2:16 to the one a
stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to
life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2Co 2:17 For we are not
as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of
God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.