1For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. (2كو 1:23; 2كو 12:20; 2كو 13:10)2For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? (2كو 7:8)3And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. (2كو 7:16; 2كو 8:22; غل 5:10; 2تس 3:4)4For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. (أع 20:19; 2كو 7:8; 2كو 7:12)
Forgive the Sinner
5Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. (1كو 5:1; 2كو 1:14; غل 4:12)6For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, (1كو 5:4; 2كو 7:11)7so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. (غل 6:1; أف 4:32)8So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.9For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. (2كو 7:15; 2كو 10:6; في 2:22)10Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,11so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. (1بط 5:8)
Triumph in Christ
12When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, (أع 14:27; أع 16:8; أع 20:6)13my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. (2كو 7:5)14But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. (نش 1:3; رو 6:17; 2كو 8:16; 2كو 9:15; أف 5:2; في 4:18; كو 2:15)15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, (1كو 1:18; 2كو 4:3)16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? (لو 2:34; يو 9:39; 2كو 3:5; 1بط 2:7)17For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.