(KJV) 2 Corinthians 2¹

⥃Reaffirm Your Love

[1] But I determined² this with myself, that³ I would not come again to you in heaviness. [2] For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?⁴ [3] And I wrote⁵ this same unto you, lest⁶, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought⁷ to rejoice; having⁸ confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all. [4] For out⁹ of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not¹⁰ that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. [5] But if any¹¹ have caused grief, he hath not grieved¹² me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. [6] Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment¹³, which¹⁴ [was inflicted] of many. [7] So that contrariwise ye¹⁵ [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed¹⁶ up with overmuch¹⁷ sorrow. [8] Wherefore I beseech you that¹⁸ ye would confirm [your] love toward him. [9] For to this end also did I write, that¹⁹ I might know the proof of you, whether²⁰ ye be obedient in all things. [10] To whom ye²¹ 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 person²² of Christ; [11] Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.²³

⥃Triumph in Christ

[12] Furthermore, when²⁴ I came to Troas to [preach] Christ’s gospel, and a²⁵ door was opened unto me of the Lord, [13] I had no rest²⁶ in my spirit, because I found not Titus²⁷ my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went²⁸ from thence into Macedonia. [14] Now thanks²⁹ [be] unto God, which³⁰ always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour³¹ of his knowledge by us in every place. [15] For we are unto God a sweet³² savour of Christ, in them³³ that are saved, and in them that perish: [16] To the one [we are] the savour of death³⁴ unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who³⁵ [is] sufficient for these things? [17] For we are not as many, which³⁶ corrupt³⁷ the word of God: but as of sin³⁸cerity³⁹, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.