2. For if I cause you pain, then who will cheer me other than the one being hurt by me?
3. I wrote this very thing so that when I came I wouldn’t have pain from those who ought to give me joy, because I am confident about all of you that my joy will also be yours.
4. For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart — not that you should be hurt, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.
5. If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree — not to exaggerate — to all of you.
6. The punishment inflicted by the majority is sufficient for that person.
7. As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, this one may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.
8. Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
9. I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.
10. If you forgive anyone, I do too. For what I have forgiven — if I have forgiven anything — it is for you in the presence of Christ.
11. I have done this so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.
12. When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, the Lord opened a door for me.
13. I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus, but I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who always puts us on display in Christ and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.