<< 2 Corinthians 2
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1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to
you in heaviness.
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but
the same which is made sorry by me?
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.
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.
5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in
part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted
of many.
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.
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward
him.
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of
you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
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;
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not
ignorant of his devices.
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and
a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
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.
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.
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish:
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?
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.
