Reaffirm Your Love 1 CPDV But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow. BSB BSB: So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
2 CPDV For if I make you sorrowful, then who is it that can make me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me? BSB BSB: For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?
3 CPDV And so, I wrote this same thing to you, so that I might not, when I arrive, add sorrow to sorrow for those with whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you in all things, so that my joy may be entirely yours. BSB BSB: I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be grieved by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.
4 CPDV For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you. BSB BSB: For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
5 CPDV But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you. BSB BSB: Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.
6 CPDV Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many. BSB BSB: The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
7 CPDV So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow. BSB BSB: So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
8 CPDV Because of this, I beg you to confirm your charity toward him. BSB BSB: Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
9 CPDV It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things. BSB BSB: My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.
10 CPDV But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes, BSB BSB: If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,
11 CPDV so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions. BSB BSB: in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
Triumph in Christ 12 CPDV And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord, BSB BSB: Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord,
13 CPDV I had no rest within my spirit, because I was not able to find Titus, my brother. So, saying goodbye to them, I set out for Macedonia. BSB BSB: I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
14 CPDV But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place. BSB BSB: But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
15 CPDV For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing. BSB BSB: For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
16 CPDV To the one, certainly, the fragrance is of death unto death. But to the other, the fragrance is of life unto life. And concerning these things, who is so suitable? BSB BSB: To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?
17 CPDV For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ. BSB BSB: For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
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