1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)

2 Corinthians 2

1 Having shewed the reason why he came not to them, 6 he requireth them to forgive and to comfort that excommunicated person, 10 even as himself also upon his true repentance had forgiven him: 12 declaring withal why he departeth from Troas to Macedonia, 14 and the happy success which God gave to his preaching in all places.

 2:1 ¶ For I have determined, unto myself, this—not, again, in grief, to come unto you.

 2:2 For, if, I, grieve you, who then is he that is to gladden me,—save he who is being grieved through me;

 2:3 And I wrote this very thing—lest, if I came, I should have, grief, from those over whom I had need to rejoice,—having confidence in you all, that, my joy, is the joy, of you all.

 2:4 For, out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, wrote I unto you, through many tears,—not that ye might be grieved, but that, the love, ye might know, which I have very abundantly unto you.

 2:5 ¶ Now, if anyone hath caused grief, not unto me hath he caused grief, but—that I may not bear too heavily—unto you all.

 2:6 Sufficient, unto such a one, the punishment itself which [was inflicted] by the many;

 2:7 So that, on the contrary, ye should forgive and encourage, lest, by any means, by his excessive grief, such a one should be swallowed up.

 2:8 Wherefore, I beseech you, assure him, of love;

 2:9 For, to this end, I also wrote,—that I might know the proof of you, whether, in all things, ye are obedient.

 2:10 Now, to whom ye forgive anything, I, also; for, I also, what I have forgiven, if, anything, I have forgiven, for your sake, in the person of Christ, [have I forgiven it].

 2:11 Lest we should be overreached by Satan, for, of his thoughts, we are not ignorant.

 2:12 ¶ Moreover, although I came unto Troas for the glad-message of the Christ, and a door for me had been opened in the Lord,

 2:13 I had no relief in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but, taking my leave of them, I came away into Macedonia.

 2:14 But, unto God, be thanks, who, ever, leadeth us in triumph in the Christ, and, the fragrance of the knowledge of him, maketh manifest, through us, in every place,

 2:15 That, of Christ, a grateful odour, are we, unto God,—in them who are being saved, and in them who are being lost:

 2:16 In these, indeed, a fragrance out of death into death, but, in those, a fragrance out of life into life. And, for these things, who is sufficient?

 2:17 For we are not, as the many, driving a petty trade with the word of God; but, as of sincerity, but, as of God, before God, in Christ, we speak.