2 Corinthians 2:5–13

Forgiveness for the Offender

⁵Now, if anyone has made somebody sad, he has not done it to me but to all of you—in part at least. (I say this because I do not want to be too hard on him.) ⁶It is enough that this person has been punished in this way by most of you. ⁷Now, however, you should forgive him and encourage him, in order to keep him from becoming so sad as to give up completely. ⁸And so I beg you to let him know that you really do love him. ⁹I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions. ¹⁰When you forgive someone for what he or she has done, I forgive them too. For when I forgive—if, indeed, I need to forgive anything—I do it in Christ’s presence because of you, ¹¹in order to keep Satan from getting the upper hand of us; for we know what his plans are.

Paul’s Anxiety in Troas

^12*When I arrived in Troas to preach the Good News about Christ, I found that the Lord had opened the way for the work there. ^13*But I was deeply worried, because I could not find our brother Titus. So I said goodbye to the people there and went on to Macedonia.