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II CORINTHIANS ยท Chapter 2
2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to
you in heaviness.
2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but
the same which is made sorry by me?
2:3 And I wrote this same unto you, 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 all of you should be grieved, but that all of
you might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2:5 But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part:
that I may not burden you all.
2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted
of many.
2:7 So that contrariwise all of you ought rather to forgive him, and
comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch
sorrow.
2:8 Wherefore I plead to you that all of you would confirm your love
toward him.
2:9 In order to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof
of you, whether all of you be obedient in all things.
2:10 To whom all of you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I
forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in
the person of Christ;
2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant
of his devices.
2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and
a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus
my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ,
and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish:
2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other
the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:
but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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