# 2 Corinthians 2 
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1. For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
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2. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?
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3. And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
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4. For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. 
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5. Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.
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6. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,
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7. so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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8. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
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9. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.
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10. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,
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11. so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. 
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12. When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,
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13. my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. 
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14. But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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15. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
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16. to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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17. For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. 

(ESV)