CHAPTER 2
1 And I ordained this [same] thing at me, that I should not come again in heaviness [or in sorrow] to you.
2 For if I make you sorry, [or heavy], who is he that gladdeth me, but he that is sorrowful of me?
3 And this same thing I wrote to you, that when I come, I have not sorrow on sorrow, of the which it behooved me to have joy. And I trust in you all, that my joy is of all you [or of you all].
4 For of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you by many tears, not that ye be sorry, but that ye know what charity I have more plenteously in you.
5 For if any man hath made me sorrowful, he hath not made me sorrowful but a part [or but in part], that I charge, [or dis-ease], not you all.
6 This blaming that is made of many, sufficeth to him, that is such one [or that is such a manner man];
7 so that on the contrary ye rather forgive and comfort, lest peradventure he that is such a manner man, be swallowed up, [or be sopped up, or despair], by more great heaviness.
8 For which thing I beseech you, that ye confirm charity into him.
9 For why therefore I wrote this, that I know your proof, whether in all things ye be obedient.
10 For to whom ye have forgiven anything, also I have forgiven. For I, that that I forgave, if I forgave anything, have forgiven for you in the person of Christ,
11 that we be not deceived of Satan; for we know his thoughts.
12 But when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,
13 I had not rest to my spirit, for I found not my brother Titus, but I said to them farewell, and I passed into Macedonia.
14 And I do thankings to God, that evermore maketh us to have victory in Christ Jesus, and showeth by us the odour, [or savour, or sweetness], of his knowing in each place;
15 for we be the good odour, [or savour], of Christ to God, among these that be made safe, and among these that perish.
16 To others soothly, [we be] odour of death into death, but to the others we be odour of life into life. And to these things who is so able?
17 For we be not as [full] many, that do adultery by the word of God [or adulterating the word of God], but we speak of cleanness as of God, before God in Christ.