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# 2 Corinthians 2

2 Corinthians 2 is chapter 2 of 13 in the Second Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 17 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He grants a pardon to the incestuous man upon his doing penance.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Corinthians 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But I determined this within myself, not to return again to you in sorrow.
2. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is it that can make me glad, except the one who is made sorrowful by me?
3. And so, I wrote this same thing to you, so that I might not, when I arrive, add sorrow to sorrow for those with whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you in all things, so that my joy may be entirely yours.
4. For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward you.
5. But if anyone has brought sorrow, he has not sorrowed me. Yet, for my part, this is so that I might not burden all of you.
6. Let this rebuke be sufficient for someone like this, for it has been brought by many.
7. So then, to the contrary, you should be more forgiving and consoling, lest perhaps someone like this may be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.
8. Because of this, I beg you to confirm your charity toward him.
9. It was for this reason, also, that I wrote, so that I might know, by testing you, whether you would be obedient in all things.
10. But anyone whom you have forgiven of anything, I also forgive. And then, too, anyone I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it was done in the person of Christ for your sakes,
11. so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions.
12. And when I had arrived at Troas, because of the Gospel of Christ, and a door had opened to me in the Lord,
13. I had no rest within my spirit, because I was not able to find Titus, my brother. So, saying goodbye to them, I set out for Macedonia.
14. But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place.
15. For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ for God, both with those who are being saved and with those who are perishing.
16. To the one, certainly, the fragrance is of death unto death. But to the other, the fragrance is of life unto life. And concerning these things, who is so suitable?
17. For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ.

## 2 Corinthians 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Statui autem hoc ipsum apud me, ne iterum in tristitia venirem ad vos.
2. Si enim ego contristo vos: et quis est, qui me lætificet, nisi qui contristatur ex me?
3. Et 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.
4. Nam ex multa tribulatione et angustia cordis scripsi vobis per multas lacrimas: non ut contristemini, sed ut sciatis, quam caritatem habeam abundantius in vobis.
5. Si quis autem contristavit, non me contristavit: sed ex parte, ut non onerem omnes vos.
6. Sufficit illi, qui ejusmodi est, objurgatio hæc, quæ fit a pluribus:
7. ita ut e contrario magis donetis, et consolemini, ne forte abundantiori tristitia absorbeatur qui ejusmodi est.
8. Propter quod obsecro vos, ut confirmetis in illum caritatem.
9. Ideo enim et scripsi, ut cognoscam experimentum vestrum, an in omnibus obedientes sitis.
10. Cui autem aliquid donastis, et ego: nam et ego quod donavi, si quid donavi, propter vos in persona Christi,
11. ut non circumveniamur a Satana: non enim ignoramus cogitationes ejus.
12. Cum venissem autem Troadem propter Evangelium Christi, et ostium mihi apertum esset in Domino,
13. non habui requiem spiritui meo, eo quod non invenerim Titum fratrem meum, sed valefaciens eis, profectus sum in Macedoniam.
14. Deo autem gratias, qui semper triumphat nos in Christo Jesu, et odorem notitiæ suæ manifestat per nos in omni loco:
15. quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo in iis qui salvi fiunt, et in iis qui pereunt:
16. aliis quidem odor mortis in mortem: aliis autem odor vitæ in vitam. Et ad hæc quis tam idoneus?
17. non enim sumus sicut plurimi, adulterantes verbum Dei, sed ex sinceritate, sed sicut ex Deo, coram Deo, in Christo loquimur.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1070: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1294: The Signs and the Rite of Confirmation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: “I also” … The apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the person and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian, whom before he had put under penance, which pardon consisted in a releasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin.
- Verse 16: The preaching of the apostle, which by its fragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own fault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting that divine call.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).