Bible, King James Version
2_Corinthians
2Cor.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.
[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.
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