New Testament · Letters

2 Corinthians chapter 2

So I that I wouldn’t come to you again with another visit.Because if I cause you pain, then who’s left to ? Only you — the very people I’ve hurt.That’s exactly why I wrote to you the way I did — so that when I do come, I won’t be made sad by the very people who should be making me happy. I’m that all of you feel the same way: my joy is your joy too.I wrote to you with a , through many tears — not to make you feel bad, but so you’d know just how .Now, if someone caused all this pain, he didn’t just hurt me — he hurt all of you to some degree. I don’t want to be about it.The the majority of you imposed on him is enough.So now you should do the opposite — him and him. Otherwise he might .So I’m urging you: for him.This was actually why I wrote to you in the first place — to you and see whether you’d follow through on everything.When you forgive someone, I do too. And whatever I’ve forgiven — if there was anything to forgive — I did it for your sake, with watching.We can’t let us — we know exactly .Now, when I came to to share the about The One, opened a for me there.But I had no because I couldn’t find my Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and headed on to .But ! He always leads us in a in The One, and through us he spreads the of everywhere we go.Because to God, we are the — both among those being and those headed for .To one group, we smell like . To the other, we smell like . And ?Unlike so many others, we’re not . No — we speak with complete , as people , , united with The One.