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2 Corinthians 2 - Meaning, Themes & Application

Understand the key themes and apply 2 Corinthians 2 to your life today

17 verses | World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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Verses in 2 Corinthians 2

2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:2

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you.

2 Corinthians 2:4

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

2 Corinthians 2:5

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

2 Corinthians 2:6

This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:8

Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

2 Corinthians 2:9

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

2 Corinthians 2:10

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

2 Corinthians 2:11

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

2 Corinthians 2:12

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

2 Corinthians 2:13

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

2 Corinthians 2:14

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who perish:

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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