1 statui autem hoc ipse apud me
ne iterum in tristitia venirem ad vos
2 si enim ego contristo vos
et quis est qui me laetificet nisi qui contristatur ex me
3 et hoc ipsum scripsi
ut non cum venero tristitiam super tristitiam habeam
de quibus oportuerat me gaudere
confidens in omnibus vobis
quia meum gaudium omnium vestrum est
4 nam ex multa tribulatione et angustia cordis
scripsi vobis per multas lacrimas
non ut contristemini
sed ut sciatis quam caritatem habeo abundantius in vobis
5 si quis autem contristavit non me contristavit
sed ex parte ut non onerem omnes vos
6 sufficit illi qui eiusmodi est obiurgatio haec quae fit a pluribus
7 ita ut e contra magis donetis et consolemini
ne forte abundantiori tristitia absorbeatur qui eiusmodi est
8 propter quod obsecro vos ut confirmetis in illum caritatem
9 ideo enim et scripsi ut cognoscam experimentum vestrum
an in omnibus oboedientes sitis
10 cui autem aliquid donatis et ego
nam et ego quod donavi si quid donavi
propter vos in persona Christi
11 ut non circumveniamur a Satana
non enim ignoramus cogitationes eius
12 cum venissem autem Troadem propter evangelium Christi
et ostium mihi apertum esset in Domino
13 non habui requiem spiritui meo
eo quod non invenerim Titum fratrem meum
sed valefaciens eis profectus sum in Macedoniam
14 Deo autem gratias qui semper triumphat nos in Christo Iesu
et odorem notitiae suae manifestat per nos in omni loco
15 quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo
in his qui salvi fiunt et in his qui pereunt
16 aliis quidem odor mortis in mortem
aliis autem odor vitae in vitam
et ad haec quis tam idoneus
17 non enim sumus sicut plurimi adulterantes verbum Dei
sed ex sinceritate
sed sicut ex Deo coram Deo in Christo loquimur
1 But I determined this with myself, that 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? 3 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. 4 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. 5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him , and comfort him , lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 10 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; 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 13 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. 14 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. 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 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? 17 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.