{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/2-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T11:06:54.583Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the presence of Christ;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 2 (ASV)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/asv/2-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/2-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}