2 Corinthians 2
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But I determined this with myself, that I
would not come again to you in heaviness.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness for the
Offender |
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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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Sufficient to such a man is this
punishment, which was inflicted of many.
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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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Wherefore I beseech you that ye would
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 ye be obedient in all
things.
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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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lest Satan should get an advantage of us:
for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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Paul's Anxiety at
Troas |
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Furthermore, when I came to Tro'as to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the
Lord,
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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. Acts 20.1
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Triumphant in
Christ |
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Now thanks be unto God, which
always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the
savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
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For we are unto God a sweet savor of
Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
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to the one we are the savor of
death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And
who is sufficient for these things?
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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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