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1 | But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again
to you in heaviness. |
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2 | 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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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. |
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4 | 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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5 | 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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6 | Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was
inflicted of many. |
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7 | 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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8 | Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward
him. |
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9 | 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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10 | 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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11 | Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not
ignorant of his devices. |
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12 | 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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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. |
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14 | 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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15 | For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish: |
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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? |
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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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