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Chapter 2 |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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;
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
