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The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 2
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But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to
you in heaviness.
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For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but
the same which is made sorry by me?
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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.
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you
with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know
the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part:
that I may not overcharge you all.
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Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted
of many.
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So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort
him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch
sorrow.
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Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward
him.
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For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of
you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
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To whom ye 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;
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Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for
we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and
a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
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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.
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Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in
Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every
place.
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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish:
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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?
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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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