{"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/dbt/2-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:21:17.498Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in part (that I may not overcharge you) all of you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 2 (DBT)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}