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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