16So ℵCA 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg. p46B 1739 33 0243 copbo read For
2: 2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?
2: 3 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.
2: 4 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.
2: 5 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.
2: 6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by 17the majority;
17Gk. the more;
2: 7 so that contrariwise 18ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
18So p46ℵC 1739 81 0243 and most, copbo arm vg. BA omit rather 1881 omits ye should
2: 8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
2: 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of 19you, 20whether ye are obedient in all things.
19So ℵC 1739 81 0243 and most. BA 33 read you, whereby ye p46 almost alone reads you. Ye
20BA 33 almost alone read whereby p46 almost alone omits whether (read: that)
2: 10 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 21person of Christ;
21Gk. face
2: 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2: 12 Now when I came to Troas for the 22gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
22Gk. good tidings see marginal note on Mt 4:23
2: 13 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.
2: 14 But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.
2: 15 For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that 23are being saved, and in them that are perishing;
23Or perhaps, are saved, and in them that perish;
2: 16 to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2: 17 For we are not as the 24many, making merchandise of the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
24So ℵBCA 1739 33 81 0243 and most, cop vg. p46D arm read rest
