{"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/kjv/2-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:29:21.930Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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, that I would not come again to you in heaviness."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I wrote this same unto you, 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 <i>the joy</i> 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 grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Sufficient to such a man <i>is</i> this punishment, which <i>was inflicted</i> of many."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"So that contrariwise ye <i>ought</i> rather to forgive <i>him</i>, and comfort <i>him</i>, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm <i>your</i> love toward him."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"To whom ye forgive any thing, I <i>forgive</i> also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave <i>it</i>, for your sakes <i>forgave I it</i> in the person of Christ;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Furthermore, when I came to Troas to <i>preach</i> Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Now thanks <i>be</i> unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To the one <i>we are</i> the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who <i>is</i> sufficient for these things?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we are not as many, which corrupt 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 (KJV)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/2-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}