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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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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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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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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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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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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: |
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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? |
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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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