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2 Corinthians 2

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 So I made up my mind that I would not pay you another painful visit.

2 For if I cause you pain, who is left to make me happy except the people I have pained?

3 Indeed, this is why I wrote as I did - so that when I came, I would not have to be pained by those who ought to be making me happy; for I had enough confidence in all of you to believe that unless I could be happy, none of you could be happy either.

4 I wrote to you with a greatly distressed and anguished heart, and with many tears, not in order to cause you pain, but to get you to realize how very much I love you.

5 Now if someone has been a cause of pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but, in some measure - I don't want to overstate it - all of you.

6 For such a person the punishment already imposed on him by the majority is sufficient,

7 so that now you should do the opposite - forgive him, encourage him, comfort him. Otherwise such a person might be swallowed up in overwhelming depression.

8 So I urge you to show that you really do love him.

9 The reason I wrote you was to see if you would pass the test, to see if you would fully obey me.

10 Anyone you forgive, I forgive too. For indeed, whatever I have forgiven, if there has been anything to forgive, has been for your sake in the presence of the Messiah

11 so that we will not be taken advantage of by the Adversary - for we are quite aware of his schemes!

12 Now when I went to Troas to proclaim the Good News of the Messiah, since a door had been opened for me by the Lord,

13 I could not rest, because I failed to find my brother Titus. So I left the people there and went on to Macedonia.

14 But thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know him!

15 For to God we are the aroma of the Messiah, both among those being saved and among those being lost;

16 to the latter, we are the smell of death leading only to more death; but to the former, we are the sweet smell of life leading to more life. Who is equal to such a task?

17 For we are not like a lot of folks who go about huckstering God's message for a fee; on the contrary, we speak out of a sincere heart, as people sent by God, standing in God's presence, living in union with the Messiah.

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.

2 For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?

3 And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

5 But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

6 Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;

7 So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.

8 For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

9 And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.

10 But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ;

11 So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.