1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. Compare verse4 commentaries
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? Compare verse4 commentaries
3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. Compare verse3 commentaries
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you. Compare verse3 commentaries
5 But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. Compare verse4 commentaries
7 So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Compare verse3 commentaries
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things. Compare verse3 commentaries
10 To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; Compare verse4 commentaries
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. Compare verse5 commentaries
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me of the Lord, Compare verse5 commentaries
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia. Compare verse5 commentaries
14 Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the aroma of his knowledge by us in every place. Compare verse6 commentaries
15 For we are to God a sweet smell of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: Compare verse8 commentaries
16 To the one we are the smell of death to death; and to the other the smell of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? Compare verse4 commentaries
17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. Compare verse5 commentaries