The King James Version Bible

2 Corinthians 2:1-9

  1. But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

  2. For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

  3. 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 the joy of you all.

  4. 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.

  5. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

  6. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

  7. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

  8. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

  9. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.