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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Corinthians 2 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/2_corinthians/2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_corinthians/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/combine/2_corinthians/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > 2 Corinthians 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_corinthians/1.htm" title="2 Corinthians 1">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 2 <a href="../2_corinthians/3.htm" title="2 Corinthians 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Reaffirm Your Love</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I wrote this very thing, 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the person of Christ; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.</p> <p class="hdg">Triumph in Christ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But thanks be unto God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savour of his knowledge in every place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, in them that are being saved, and in them that are perishing; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_corinthians/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Corinthians 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_corinthians/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Corinthians 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/2_corinthians/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>