1But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow. 2For if I make you sorrowful, who then is he who makes me glad but he who is made sorrowful by me? 3And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you. 5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I may not press too heavily) to you all. 6Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; 7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. 8Therefore I urge you to confirm your love toward him. 9For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. 10But to whom you forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I have forgiven it in the presence of Messiah; 11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 12Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Messiah, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, 13I had no relief for my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia. 14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Messiah, and makes manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place. 15For we are a sweet fragrance of Messiah to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16to the one a fragrance from death to death; to the other a fragrance from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 17For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Messiah.