2 Corinthians 2
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
1Statui autem hoc ipsum apud me, ne iterum in tristitia venirem ad vos.
2For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?
2Si enim ego contristo vos: et quis est, qui me lætificet, nisi qui contristatur ex me?
3And 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.
3Et hoc ipsum scripsi vobis, ut non cum venero, tristitiam super tristitiam habeam, de quibus oportuerat me gaudere: confidens in omnibus vobis, quia meum gaudium, omnium vestrum est.
4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
4Nam ex multa tribulatione et angustia cordis scripsi vobis per multas lacrimas: non ut contristemini, sed ut sciatis, quam caritatem habeam abundantius in vobis.
5But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
5Si quis autem contristavit, non me contristavit: sed ex parte, ut non onerem omnes vos.
6This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;
6Sufficit illi, qui ejusmodi est, objurgatio hæc, quæ fit a pluribus:
7so 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.
7ita ut e contrario magis donetis, et consolemini, ne forte abundantiori tristitia absorbeatur qui ejusmodi est.
8Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
8Propter quod obsecro vos, ut confirmetis in illum caritatem.
9For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
9Ideo enim et scripsi, ut cognoscam experimentum vestrum, an in omnibus obedientes sitis.
10Now 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,
10Cui autem aliquid donastis, et ego: nam et ego quod donavi, si quid donavi, propter vos in persona Christi,
11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
11ut non circumveniamur a Satana: non enim ignoramus cogitationes ejus.
12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
12Cum venissem autem Troadem propter Evangelium Christi, et ostium mihi apertum esset in Domino,
13I 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.
13non habui requiem spiritui meo, eo quod non invenerim Titum fratrem meum, sed valefaciens eis, profectus sum in Macedoniam.
14Now 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.
14Deo autem gratias, qui semper triumphat nos in Christo Jesu, et odorem notitiæ suæ manifestat per nos in omni loco:
15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are being saved and in those who perish:
15quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo in iis qui salvi fiunt, et in iis qui pereunt:
16to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
16aliis quidem odor mortis in mortem: aliis autem odor vitæ in vitam. Et ad hæc quis tam idoneus?
17For 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.
17non enim sumus sicut plurimi, adulterantes verbum Dei, sed ex sinceritate, sed sicut ex Deo, coram Deo, in Christo loquimur.
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