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1For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.[#1:23; 12:20, 21; 13:10]
2For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?[#7:8]
3And 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.[#8:22; Gal. 5:10; 2 Thess. 3:4; 7:16]
4For 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.[#7:8, 12; Acts 20:19]
5Now 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.[#1 Cor. 5:1, 2; #Gal. 4:12; #1:14]
6For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,[#1 Cor. 5:4, 5; 7:11]
7so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.[#Gal. 6:1; Eph. 4:32]
8So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
9For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.[#Phil. 2:22; #7:15; 10:6]
10Anyone 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,
11so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.[#1 Pet. 5:8]
12When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,[#Acts 16:8; 20:6; #Acts 14:27]
13my 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.[#7:5]
14But 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.[#8:16; 9:15; #Col. 2:15 (Gk.); #Eph. 5:2; Phil. 4:18; Song 1:3]
15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,[#1 Cor. 1:18; #4:3]
16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?[#Luke 2:34; John 9:39; 1 Pet. 2:7, 8; #Luke 2:34; John 9:39; 1 Pet. 2:7, 8; #3:5, 6]
17For 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.