2:1 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
2:2 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2:3 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
2:4 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2:5 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2:6 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
2:7 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
2:8 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2:9 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
2:10 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2:11 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
2:12 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2:13 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2:14 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
2:15 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
2:16 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
2:17 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?