Parallel Bible results for "2 corinthians 2"

2 Corinthians 2

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 statui autem hoc ipse apud me ne iterum in tristitia venirem ad vos

2 si enim ego contristo vos et quis est qui me laetificet nisi qui contristatur ex me

3 et hoc ipsum scripsi ut non cum venero tristitiam super tristitiam habeam de quibus oportuerat me gaudere confidens in omnibus vobis quia meum gaudium omnium vestrum est

4 nam ex multa tribulatione et angustia cordis scripsi vobis per multas lacrimas non ut contristemini sed ut sciatis quam caritatem habeo abundantius in vobis

5 si quis autem contristavit non me contristavit sed ex parte ut non onerem omnes vos

6 sufficit illi qui eiusmodi est obiurgatio haec quae fit a pluribus

7 ita ut e contra magis donetis et consolemini ne forte abundantiori tristitia absorbeatur qui eiusmodi est

8 propter quod obsecro vos ut confirmetis in illum caritatem

9 ideo enim et scripsi ut cognoscam experimentum vestrum an in omnibus oboedientes sitis

10 cui autem aliquid donatis et ego nam et ego quod donavi si quid donavi propter vos in persona Christi

11 ut non circumveniamur a Satana non enim ignoramus cogitationes eius

12 cum venissem autem Troadem propter evangelium Christi et ostium mihi apertum esset in Domino

13 non habui requiem spiritui meo eo quod non invenerim Titum fratrem meum sed valefaciens eis profectus sum in Macedoniam

14 Deo autem gratias qui semper triumphat nos in Christo Iesu et odorem notitiae suae manifestat per nos in omni loco

15 quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo in his qui salvi fiunt et in his qui pereunt

16 aliis quidem odor mortis in mortem aliis autem odor vitae in vitam et ad haec quis tam idoneus

17 non enim sumus sicut plurimi adulterantes verbum Dei sed ex sinceritate sed sicut ex Deo coram Deo in Christo loquimur

Good News Translation GNT

1 So I made up my mind not to come to you again to make you sad.

2 For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up? Only the very persons I had made sad.

3 That is why I wrote that letter to you - I did not want to come to you and be made sad by the very people who should make me glad. For I am convinced that when I am happy, then all of you are happy too.

4 I wrote you with a greatly troubled and distressed heart and with many tears; my purpose was not to make you sad, but to make you realize how much I love you all.

5 Now, if anyone has made somebody sad, he has not done it to me but to all of you - in part, at least. (I say this because I do not want to be too hard on him.)

6 It is enough that this person has been punished in this way by most of you.

7 Now, however, you should forgive him and encourage him, in order to keep him from becoming so sad as to give up completely.

8 And so I beg you to let him know that you really do love him.

9 I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions.

10 When you forgive people for what they have done, I forgive them too. For when I forgive - if, indeed, I need to forgive anything - I do it in Christ's presence because of you,

11 in order to keep Satan from getting the upper hand over us; for we know what his plans are.

12 When I arrived in Troas to preach the Good News about Christ, I found that the Lord had opened the way for the work there.

13 But I was deeply worried, because I could not find our brother Titus. So I said good-bye to the people there and went on to Macedonia.

14 But thanks be to God! For in union with Christ we are always led by God as prisoners in Christ's victory procession. God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.

15 For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.

16 For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable for such a task?

17 We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.