But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow
For if I make you sorrowful, then who is it that can make me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me
And so, I wrote this same thing to you, so that I might not, when I arrive, add sorrow to sorrow for those with whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you in all things, so that my joy may be entirely yours
For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you
But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you
Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many
So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow
Because of this, I beg you to confirm your charity toward him
It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things
But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes
so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions
And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord
I had no rest within my spirit, because I was not able to find Titus, my brother. So, saying goodbye to them, I set out for Macedonia
But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place
For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing
To the one, certainly, the fragrance is of death unto death. But to the other, the fragrance is of life unto life. And concerning these things, who is so suitable
For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ