{"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/web/2-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:20:36.494Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 to you again in sorrow."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you."},{"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 sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press 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 on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes 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 schemes."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 2 (WEB)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/web/2-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/2-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}