{"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/wbt/2-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T04:41:30.067Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WBT","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 who is made sorry by me?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I wrote this same to you, lest, coming I should have sorrow from them by 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 ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if any hath 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 is this punishment, which was inflicted by many."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love towards him."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it, 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 preach the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by 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 be to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To the one we are the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 2 (WBT)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/wbt/2-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WBT. https://primebible.com/wbt/2-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}