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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
