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1 En realidad, decidí no hacerles una visita que los dejara tristes, 2 porque si los entristezco, ¿quién me alegrará después? Solamente ustedes, a los que habré entristecido. 3 Precisamente por eso les escribí, para que al llegar no me entristecieran los que debían alegrarme. Estaba seguro de que la felicidad de ustedes estaba íntimamente ligada con la mía. 4 Y cuando les escribí, se me partía el corazón al hacerlo. Lo digo con sinceridad: lloré muchísimo. Mi intención no era hacerlos sufrir, pero tenía que demostrarles cuán grande es el amor que les tengo. 5 Aquel hombre, el causante de tanta tristeza, no me la causó sólo a mí sino también a ustedes, aunque yo exagere. 6 Para él ya es bastante el castigo que la mayoría le impuso. 7 Ya es hora de perdonarlo y consolarlo, no vaya a ser que se consuma de tanta tristeza. 8 Les ruego que le muestren que todavía lo aman. 9 Les escribí de aquella manera precisamente para ver hasta dónde me obedecían. 10 Yo perdonaré a cualquiera que perdonen. Y lo que yo haya perdonado, si algo tenía que perdonar, lo he hecho por ustedes delante de Cristo, 11 para que Satanás no se aproveche de nosotros, pues ya conocemos sus malas intenciones. 12 Bien, cuando llegué a la ciudad de Troas, el Señor me proporcionó formidables oportunidades para predicar el evangelio de Cristo. 13 Pero Tito, mi amado hermano, no estaba allí cuando llegué. Tan intranquilo me puso esto que me despedí y fui a buscarlo a Macedonia. 14 Pero, ¡gracias a Dios que siempre nos lleva en el desfile victorioso de Cristo! y dondequiera que vamos nos usa para hablar a otros y para esparcir el evangelio como perfume fragante. 15 Para Dios somos como la fragancia de Cristo; olor que llega a los que se salvan y a los que se pierden. 16 Para estos, somos un olor de muerte que lleva la muerte; pero para los otros, somos un olor de vida que lleva a la vida. Y ¿quién está perfectamente capacitado para una tarea como esta? 17 Nosotros fuimos enviados por Dios para anunciar el evangelio con sinceridad delante de Dios, porque estamos unidos a Cristo. No somos como esos que predican la palabra de Dios por lucro.

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  • Titus

    Coworker and partner of Paul

    A Greek coworker of Paul, not compelled to be circumcised, who carried Paul's letters to Corinth, and whom Paul left in Crete to set things in order.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Corinthians 8:23; Galatians 2:3

Cross references (17)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 12:20–21; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Corinthians 4:21
  2. 2 2 Corinthians 7:8; 1 Corinthians 12:26; Romans 12:15; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Corinthians 11:29
  3. 3 Galatians 5:10; 2 Corinthians 8:22; Philemon 21; 2 Thessalonians 3:4; 2 Corinthians 7:12
  4. 4 2 Corinthians 7:12; Proverbs 27:5–6; Leviticus 19:17–18; Luke 19:41–44; 2 Corinthians 11:2
  5. 5 1 Corinthians 5:12–13; Galatians 4:12; Galatians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 5:1–5; Proverbs 17:25
  6. 6 1 Corinthians 5:4–5; 1 Timothy 5:20; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 2 Corinthians 7:11
  7. 7 Ephesians 4:32; Galatians 6:1–2; Colossians 3:13; Isaiah 28:7; Proverbs 17:22
  8. 8 Jude 22–23; Galatians 6:10; Galatians 5:13; Galatians 6:1–2
  9. 9 2 Corinthians 10:6; Philemon 21; Philippians 2:22; 2 Corinthians 7:12–15; 2 Corinthians 8:24
  10. 10 John 20:23; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Matthew 18:18; 1 Corinthians 5:4
  11. 11 1 Peter 5:8; Ephesians 6:11–12; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Luke 22:31
  12. 12 Acts 16:8; Acts 14:27; Colossians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 16:9; Revelation 3:7–8
  13. 13 2 Corinthians 7:5–6; 2 Corinthians 12:18; Galatians 2:1; 2 Timothy 4:10; 2 Corinthians 8:6
  14. 14 Ephesians 5:2; Romans 8:37; 2 Corinthians 2:15–16; 2 Corinthians 9:15; Romans 6:17
  15. 15 Ephesians 5:2; 1 Corinthians 1:18; Ezekiel 20:41; Philippians 4:18; Genesis 8:21
  16. 16 2 Corinthians 3:5–6; John 9:39; 1 Peter 2:7–8; Luke 2:34; 1 Corinthians 15:10
  17. 17 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Peter 2:1–3; 2 Timothy 4:3–4; 1 Timothy 4:1–3

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary 2:12 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Second Corinthians (Homily V)

    These words seem on the one hand to be unworthy of Paul, if because of a brother's absence he threw away so great an opportunity of saving; and on the other, to hang apart from the context. What then?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)

  2. Quotes verse 2:17 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapters XXV–XXVI)

    … strain also the Apostle Paul, inasmuch as he had a good conscience, said to the Corinthians: "For we are not as many, who corrupt the Word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ;" "We have injured no man, corrupted no man, circumvented no man."

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 2:14–16 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter XI — 1-54)

    To the one we are the savor of life unto life, to the other the savor of death unto death: and who is sufficient for these things?" The lesson of the holy Gospel before us affords us the opportunity of so speaking of that savor, that we on our part may give worthy utterance, and you diligent heed, to what …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 2:2 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily VI)

    Now if ye grieve at hearing these things, I thank you much, for "who is he that maketh me glad, but he which is made sorry by me?" Do not then ever cease to grieve and be vexed for them, for the sorrow that comes of such things will be to you a beginning of a change for the better.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 2:15 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XXI)

    Then on the nostrils; that receiving the sacred ointment ye may say, We are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)