2 Corinthians 2

⁵But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to you all.

⁶For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough;

⁷so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

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.

¹⁰Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

¹¹to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

¹²When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord;[#Acts 16.8.]

¹³but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

¹⁴But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

¹⁵For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

¹⁶to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

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.