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2 Corinthians 2

New Century Version NCV

1 So I decided that my next visit to you would not be another one to make you sad.

2 If I make you sad, who will make me glad? Only you can make me glad -- particularly the person whom I made sad.

3 I wrote you a letter for this reason: that when I came to you I would not be made sad by the people who should make me happy. I felt sure of all of you, that you would share my joy.

4 When I wrote to you before, I was very troubled and unhappy in my heart, and I wrote with many tears. I did not write to make you sad, but to let you know how much I love you.

5 Someone there among you has caused sadness, not to me, but to all of you. I mean he caused sadness to all in some way. (I do not want to make it sound worse than it really is.)

6 The punishment that most of you gave him is enough for him.

7 But now you should forgive him and comfort him to keep him from having too much sadness and giving up completely.

8 So I beg you to show that you love him.

9 I wrote you to test you and to see if you obey in everything.

10 If you forgive someone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven -- if I had anything to forgive -- I forgave it for you, as if Christ were with me.

11 I did this so that Satan would not win anything from us, because we know very well what Satan's plans are.

12 When I came to Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, the Lord gave me a good opportunity there.

13 But I had no peace, because I did not find my brother Titus. So I said good-bye to them at Troas and went to Macedonia.

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in victory through Christ. God uses us to spread his knowledge everywhere like a sweet-smelling perfume.

15 Our offering to God is this: We are the sweet smell of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are being lost.

16 To those who are lost, we are the smell of death that brings death, but to those who are being saved, we are the smell of life that brings life. So who is able to do this work?

17 We do not sell the word of God for a profit as many other people do. But in Christ we speak the truth before God, as messengers of God.

The Darby Translation DBY

1 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.

2 For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

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.

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.

5 But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.

6 Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been inflicted] by the many;

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.

8 Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.

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.

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;

11 that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.

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,

13 I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

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.

15 For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

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?

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.