1So I made up my mind that my next visit to you must not be another painful one.
2If I cause pain to you, who is left to cheer me up, except you whom I have offended?
3This is precisely the point I made in my letter: I did not want, I said, to come and be made miserable by the very people who ought to have made me happy; and I had sufficient confidence in you all to know that for me to be happy is for all of you to be happy.
4That letter I sent you came out of great distress and anxiety; how many tears I shed as I wrote it! Not because I wanted to cause you pain; rather I wanted you to know the love, the more than ordinary love, that I have for you.
5Any injury that has been done has not been done to me; to some extent (I do not want to make too much of it) it has been done to you all.
6The penalty on which the general meeting has agreed has met the offence well enough.
7Something very different is called for now: you must forgive the offender and put heart into him; the man's distress must not be made so severe as to overwhelm him.
8I urge you therefore to reassure him of your love for him.
9I wrote, I may say, to see how you stood the test, whether you fully accepted my authority.
10But anyone who has your forgiveness has mine too; and when I speak of forgiving (so far as there is anything for me to forgive), I mean that as the representative of Christ I have forgiven him for your sake.
11For Satan must not be allowed to get the better of us; we know his wiles all too well.
12When I came to Troas, where I was to preach the gospel of Christ, and where an opening awaited me for serving the Lord,
13I still found no relief of mind, for my colleague Titus was not there to meet me; so I took leave of the people and went off to Macedonia.
14But thanks be to God, who continually leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession, and uses us to spread abroad the fragrance of the knowledge of himself!
15We are indeed the incense offered by Christ to God, both among those who are on the way to salvation, and among those who are on the way to destruction:
16to the latter it is a deadly fume that kills, to the former a vital fragrance that brings life. Who is equal to such a calling?
17We are not adulterating the word of God for profit as so many do; when we declare the word we do it in sincerity, as from God and in God's sight, as members of Christ.
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