2Cor 2
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But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
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For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad but he who is made sorry
by me?
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And I wrote this very thing, 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 to you with many tears; not
that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly
to you.
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But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I
press not too heavily) to you all.
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Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many;
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so that contrariwise you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means
such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
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Wherefore I beseech you to 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 you
are obedient in all things.
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But to whom you forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven,
if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of
Christ;
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that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened to me
in the Lord,
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I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my
leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.
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But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and makes manifest
through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.
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For we are a sweet savor of Christ to God, in them that are saved, and in them that
perish;
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to the one a savor from death to death; to the other a savor from life to life. And
who is sufficient for these things?
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For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as
of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.