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2 I decided I would not pay you another painful visit. 2 For if I pain you, then who is to give me pleasure? None but the very people I am paining! 3 So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you. 4 For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear — not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you. 5 If a certain individual has been causing pain, he has been causing pain not so much to me as to all of you — at anyrate (for I am not going to overstate the case) to a section of you. 6 This censure from the majority is severe enough for the individual in question, 7 so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse. 8 So I beg you to reinstate him in your love. 9 For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient. 10 If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes, 11 in case Satan should take advantage of our position — for I know his manœuvres!
12 When I reached Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, though I had a wide opportunity in the Lord, 13 my spirit could not rest, because I did not find Titus my brother there; so I said goodbye and went off to Macedonia. 14 Wherever I go, thank God, he makes my life a constant pageant of triumph in Christ, diffusing the perfume of his knowledge everywhere by me. 15 I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing, 16 to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career? 17 I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.