that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" 001:018 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no." 001:019 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes." 001:020 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us. 001:021 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; 001:022 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. 001:023 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you. 001:024 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith. 002:001 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 002:002 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me? 002:003 And 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. 002:004 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. 002:005 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all. 002:006 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; 002:007 so 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. 002:008 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him. 002:009 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. 002:010 Now 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, 002:011 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes. 002:012 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord, 002:013 I 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. 002:014 Now 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. 002:015 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 002:016 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet