but i determined this with myself that i would not come again to you in heaviness
for if i make you sorry who is he then that maketh me glad but the same which is made sorry by me
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
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
but if any have caused grief he hath not grieved me but in part that i may not overcharge you all
sufficient to such a man is this punishment which was inflicted of many
so that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow
wherefore i beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him
for to this end also did i write that i might know the proof of you whether ye be obedient in all things
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
lest satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices
furthermore when i came to troas to preach christs gospel and a door was opened unto me of the lord
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
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
for we are unto god a sweet savour of christ in them that are saved and in them that perish
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
for we are not as many which corrupt the word of god but as of sincerity but as of god in the sight of god speak we in christ