2 Corinthians 2:1–11

Reaffirm Your Love

1 But I determined this 1for my own sake, that I awould not come to you in sorrow again.

2 For if I acause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?

3 This is the very thing I awrote you, so that bwhen I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having cconfidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I awrote 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.

5 But aif any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—1in order not to say too much—to all of you.

6 Sufficient for such a one is athis punishment which was inflicted by the majority,

7 so that on the contrary you should rather aforgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

8 Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

9 For to this end also aI wrote, so that I might 1bput you to the test, whether you are cobedient in all things.

10 But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes ain the presence of Christ,

11 so that no advantage would be taken of us by aSatan, for bwe are not ignorant of his schemes.