2 Corinthians 2

1But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.Cross-references: Acts 11:29 · Acts 15:2 · Acts 15:37 · 1Cor 2:2 · 1Cor 4:21 · 1Cor 5:3 · +7 more

2For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?Cross-references: Rom 12:15 · 1Cor 12:26 · 2Cor 1:14 · 2Cor 7:8 · 2Cor 11:29

3And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.Cross-references: 1Cor 4:21 · 2Cor 1:15 · 2Cor 7:6 · 2Cor 7:8 · 2Cor 7:12 · 2Cor 8:22 · +5 more

4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.Cross-references: Lev 19:17 · Ps 119:136 · Prov 27:5 · Jer 13:15 · Luke 19:41 · Rom 9:2 · +5 more

5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.Cross-references: Prov 17:25 · 1Cor 5:1 · 1Cor 5:12 · Gal 4:12 · Gal 5:10

6This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;Cross-references: 1Cor 5:4 · 2Cor 7:11 · 2Cor 13:10 · 1Tim 5:20

7so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.Cross-references: 2Sam 20:19 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 56:1 · Ps 57:3 · Ps 124:3 · Prov 1:12 · +13 more

8Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.Cross-references: Gal 5:13 · Gal 6:1 · Gal 6:10 · Jude 1:22

9For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.Cross-references: Ex 16:4 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:16 · Deut 13:3 · 2Cor 7:12 · 2Cor 8:24 · +5 more

10Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,Cross-references: Matt 18:18 · John 20:23 · 1Cor 5:4 · 2Cor 5:20

11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.Cross-references: 1Chr 21:1 · Job 1:11 · Job 2:3 · Job 2:5 · Job 2:9 · Zech 3:1 · +14 more

12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,Cross-references: Acts 14:27 · Acts 16:8 · Acts 20:1 · Acts 20:8 · Rom 1:1 · 1Cor 16:9 · +2 more

13I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.Cross-references: Acts 20:1 · 2Cor 7:5 · 2Cor 7:13 · 2Cor 8:6 · 2Cor 8:16 · 2Cor 8:23 · +5 more

14Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.Cross-references: Ps 106:47 · Ps 148:14 · Song 1:3 · Rom 6:17 · Rom 8:37 · Rom 15:19 · +13 more

15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who perish:Cross-references: Gen 8:21 · Ex 29:18 · Ex 29:25 · Isa 49:5 · Ezek 20:41 · 1Cor 1:18 · +4 more

16to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?Cross-references: Luke 2:34 · John 9:39 · Acts 13:45 · Acts 20:26 · 1Cor 15:10 · 2Cor 3:5 · +2 more

17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.Cross-references: Jer 5:31 · Jer 23:27 · Matt 24:24 · Acts 20:20 · Acts 20:27 · 1Cor 5:8 · +17 more