2 Corinthians 2

Etheridge^{(i) 1} But I have determined this in myself, that I will not with sorrow again come to you. ² For if I grieve you, who shall refresh me, but he whom I had grieved? ³ And I have written to you this very [epistle], lest when I come they grieve me, they who ought to refresh me. But I confide in you, that my joy is that of all of you. ⁴ And from great affliction and anxiety of heart I wrote those things to you with many tears, not that you might grieve, but (also) that you might know the abundant love I have towards you. ⁵ But if any one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me (only), but a part of you all: that the word may not weigh upon [the whole of] you. ⁶ But sufficient for him was this chastisement, which was from many. ⁷ And now on the other hand it behoves you to forgive him and console him, lest he who is such an one be swallowed up of excessive grief. ⁸ Therefore I entreat of you to confirm to him your love. ⁹ On this account also I have written, to ascertain by experiment whether in every thing you will obey me. ¹⁰ But to whom you forgive, I also. For I, too, what I have forgiven, have on your account forgiven in the presence [Or, the person.] of the Meshiha: ¹¹ lest Satana get the advantage of you; for we know his devices. ¹² WHEN, in preaching the gospel of the Meshiha, I had come to Troas, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, ¹³ I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titos my brother. But leaving them, I went forth to Makedunia. ¹⁴ But thanks unto Aloha, who in all time maketh us a triumph in the Meshiha, and maketh manifest by us the perfume of his knowledge in every place. ¹⁵ For we are a fragrant perfume in the Meshiha unto Aloha in those who are saved, and in those who perish. ¹⁶ To these as a perfume of death unto death, and to those as a perfume of life unto life. And unto these who is equal? ¹⁷ For we are not as the rest who commix the word of Aloha; but as in truth, and as from Aloha, before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak.