Geneva Bible (1599): 2 Corinthians 2

¹ Bvt I determined thus in my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse.

² For if I make you sorie, who is he then that shoulde make me glad, but ye same which is made sorie by me?

³ And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

⁴ For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you.

⁵ And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.

⁶ It is sufficient vnto the same man, that hee was rebuked of many.

⁷ So that nowe contrariwise yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest the same shoulde bee swalowed vp with ouermuch heauinesse.

⁸ Wherefore, I pray you, that you woulde confirme your loue towards him.

⁹ For this cause also did I write, that I might knowe the proofe of you, whether yee would be obedient in all things.

¹⁰ To whome yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for verely if I forgaue any thing, to whome I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it in the sight of Christ,

¹¹ Lest Satan should circumuent vs: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.

¶ ¹² Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christs Gospell, and a doore was opened vnto me of the Lord,

¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, because I founde not Titus my brother, but tooke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.

¹⁴ Now thankes be vnto God, which alwaies maketh vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.

¹⁵ For wee are vnto God the sweete sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them which perish.

¹⁶ To the one we are the sauour of death, vnto death, and to the other the sauour of life, vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

¹⁷ For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.