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2 Corinthians 2

He sheweth his love towards them, 7 Requiring like wise that they would be favourable to the incestuous adulterer, seeing he did repent. 14 He also rejoiceth in God for the efficacy of his doctrine, 17 Confuting thereby such quarrelpikers, as under pretence of speaking against his person, sought nothing, but the overthrow of his doctrine.
1.But I determined thus in my self, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2.For if I make you sorry, who is he then that should make me glad, but the same which is made asorry by me?
3.And I wrote bthis same thing unto you, lest when I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice: this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4.For in great affliction, and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have, specially unto you.
5.And if any hath caused sorrow, the same hath not cmade me sorry, but partly (lest I should dmore charge him) you all.
6.It is sufficient unto the same man, that he was rebuked of many.
7.So that now contrary wise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him lest the same eshould be swallowed up with over much heaviness.
8.Wherefore, I pray you, that you would fconfirm your love towards him.
9.For this cause also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye would be obedient in all things.
10.To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for verily if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the gsight of Christ,
11.Lest Satan should hcircumvent us: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.
12.¶ Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s Gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
13.I had no rest ^in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but took my leave of them, and went away into Macedonia.
14.iNow thanks be unto God which always maketh us kto triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15.For we are unto God the sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them which perish.
16.To the one we are the lsavour of death, unto death, and to the other the savour of life, unto life, *and who is sufficient for these things.
17.*For we are not as many, mwhich make merchandise of the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God in the sight of God speak we in ^Christ.

Notes

2-a.
Which was given to Satan but now doeth repent.
3-b.
Which made you and him sorry in my further epistle.
5-c.
After this adulterer did repent and amend, Paul did so utterly cast off all sorrow, that he denies that in manner he was any whit sorry.
5-d.
And so should increase his sorrow which I would diminish.
7-e.
The adulterer, which entertained his mother in law.
8-f.
That at my intercession you would declare by the public consent of the Church that you embrace him again as a brother seeing he was excommunicated by the common consent.
10-g.
That is, truly, & from mine heart, even as in the presence of Christ.
11-h.
By our rigorous punishing.
13-^.
Or, in my mind.
14-i.
From this place unto the 6 chap. 11 he entreats only of the ministers, save he sometime intermeddles that which appertains to the whole Church, as Chap. 3.17, and 18 verses, and not only to the ministers.
14-k.
In working mightly by us he makes us partakers of his victory and triumph.
16-*.
Rom. 11.16.
16-l.
The preaching of the cross brings death to them which only consider Christ’s death as a common death, and be thereat offended, or else think it folly: and brings again life to them who in his death behold their life.
17-*.
Chap. 4.2.
17-^.
Or, through Christ, or of Christ.
17-m.
That is, which preach for gain, and corrupt it to serve men’s affections.