New American Standard Bible 2020

2 Corinthians 2:3-17

3This is the very thing I 1wrote you, so that 2when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having 3confidence in you all that my joy was the joy of you all. 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I 4wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

5But 5if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not for me, but in some degree--6not to say too much--for all of you. 6Sufficient for such a person is 7this punishment which was imposed by the majority, 7so that on the other hand, you should rather 8forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a person might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. 9For to this end 9I also wrote, so that I might 10 11put you to the test, whether you are 12obedient in all things. 10But one whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did so for your sakes 13in the presence of Christ, 11so that no advantage would be taken of us by 14Satan, for 15we are not ignorant of his schemes.

12Now when I came to 16Troas for the 17gospel of Christ and when a 18door was opened for me in the Lord, 13I 19had no rest for my spirit, not finding 20Titus my brother; but 21saying goodbye to them, I went on to 22Macedonia.

14 23But thanks be to God, who always 24leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us reveals the 25fragrance of the 26knowledge of Him in every place. 15For we are a 27fragrance of Christ to God among 28those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: 16 29to the one an 30aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is 31adequate for these things? 17For we are not like the many, 32 33peddling the word of God, but 34as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ 35in the sight of God.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 2:3 2 Cor 2:9; 7:8, 12 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 2:3 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 12:21 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 2:3 Gal 5:10; 2 Thess 3:4; Philem 21 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 2:4 2 Cor 2:9; 7:8, 12 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 2:5 1 Cor 5:1f ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 2:5 Lit so that I not be burdensome ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 2:6 1 Cor 5:4f; 2 Cor 7:11 ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 2:7 Gal 6:1; Eph 4:32 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Cor 2:3f ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 2:9 Lit know the proof of you ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Cor 8:2; Phil 2:22 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 2:9 2 Cor 7:15; 10:6 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 2:10 1 Cor 5:4; 2 Cor 4:6 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 2:11 Matt 4:10 ↩
15. 2 Corinthians 2:11 Luke 22:31; 2 Cor 4:4; 1 Pet 5:8 ↩
16. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Acts 16:8 ↩
17. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Rom 1:1; 2 Cor 4:3, 4; 8:18; 9:13; 10:14; 11:4, 7; 1 Thess 3:2 ↩
18. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Acts 14:27 ↩
19. 2 Corinthians 2:13 2 Cor 7:5 ↩
20. 2 Corinthians 2:13 2 Cor 7:6, 13f; 8:6, 16, 23; 12:18; Gal 2:1, 3; 2 Tim 4:10; Titus 1:4 ↩
21. 2 Corinthians 2:13 Mark 6:46 ↩
22. 2 Corinthians 2:13 Rom 15:26 ↩
23. 2 Corinthians 2:14 Rom 1:8; 6:17; 1 Cor 15:57; 2 Cor 8:16; 9:15 ↩
24. 2 Corinthians 2:14 Col 2:15 ↩
25. 2 Corinthians 2:14 Song 1:3; Ezek 20:41; Eph 5:2; Phil 4:18 ↩
26. 2 Corinthians 2:14 1 Cor 12:8 ↩
27. 2 Corinthians 2:15 Song 1:3; Ezek 20:41; Eph 5:2; Phil 4:18 ↩
28. 2 Corinthians 2:15 1 Cor 1:18 ↩
29. 2 Corinthians 2:16 Luke 2:34; John 9:39; 1 Pet 2:7f ↩
30. 2 Corinthians 2:16 Or odor ↩
31. 2 Corinthians 2:16 2 Cor 3:5f ↩
32. 2 Corinthians 2:17 Or diluting ↩
33. 2 Corinthians 2:17 2 Cor 4:2; Gal 1:6-9 ↩
34. 2 Corinthians 2:17 1 Cor 5:8; 2 Cor 1:12; 1 Thess 2:4; 1 Pet 4:11 ↩
35. 2 Corinthians 2:17 2 Cor 12:19 ↩

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