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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you.
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And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,
2 For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved?
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for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?
3 I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy.
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and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,
4 For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
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for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.
5 If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely.
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And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;
6 The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.
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sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,
7 Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;
8 I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.
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wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,
9 Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.
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for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.
10 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,
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And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you -- in the person of Christ -- [I forgive it,]
11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
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that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.
12 Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me,
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And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,
13 I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
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I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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and to God [are] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,
15 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
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because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;
16 To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?
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to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
17 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
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for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.
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