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1So I decided that my next visit to you would not be another visit to make you sad. 2If I make you sad, then who will make me happy? Only you can make me happy - you, the ones I made sad. 3I wrote you a letter so that when I came to you I would not be made sad by those who should make me happy. I felt sure that all of you would share my joy. 4When I wrote to you before, I was very troubled and my heart was full of sadness. I wrote with many tears. I did not write to make you sad, but to let you know how much I love you.

Forgive the Person Who Did Wrong
 5Someone in your group has caused sadness - not to me, but to all of you. I mean he has caused sadness to all in some way. (I don't want to make it sound worse than it really is.) 6The punishment that most of your group gave him is enough for him. 7But now you should forgive him and encourage him. This will keep him from having too much sadness and giving up completely. 8So I beg you to show him that you love him. 9This is why I wrote to you. I wanted to test you and see if you obey in everything. 10If you forgive someone, then I also forgive them. And what I have forgiven - if I had anything to forgive - I forgave it for you, and Christ was with me. 11I did this so that Satana would not win anything from us. We know very well what his plans are.

God Gives Us Victory Over Troubles
 12I went to Troas to tell people the Good Newsb of Christ. The Lord gave me a good opportunity there. 13But I had no peace because I did not find my brother Titus. So I said goodbye and went to Macedoniac.
 14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in victory through Christ. God uses us to spread his knowledge everywhere like a sweet-smelling perfume. 15Our offering to God is to be the perfume of Christ that goes out to those who are being saved and to those who are being lost. 16To those who are being lost, this perfume smells like death, and it brings them death. But to those who are being saved, it has the sweet smell of life, and it brings them life. So who is good enough to do this work? 17Certainly not those who are out there selling God's messaged for a profit! But we don't do that. With Christ's help we speak God's truth honestly, knowing that we must answer to him.
aSatan A name for the devil meaning “the enemy,” or “the accuser.”
bGood News In the Gospels this is usually the news about the coming of God’s kingdom (see above) or its representative Jesus the Messiah. In other places it is, more specifically, the news or message of God’s grace - that he has made a way through Jesus Christ for people to be made right with him and enjoy his blessings now and forever.
cMacedonia The northern part of Greece, where Thessalonica and Philippi were.
dmessage See “Good News.”