{"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/drb/2-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:37:39.490Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon 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 to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many: "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Wherefore, I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord, "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient? "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak. "}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 2 (DRB)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/2-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}