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 makes me glad, but the same who 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 you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5. But if any has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overburden you all.
6. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7. So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
8. Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
9. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
10. To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also: for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave 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,