2Corinthians:2

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* I made up my mind that I would not go to visit you again if I had to make you sad . * For if I make you sad , who is going to make me glad ? No one , but the one I made sad . * That is why I wrote the letter . I did not want to come and be made sad by those who should make me glad . I am sure that what makes me glad makes you all glad too . * When I wrote to you , I was in great trouble and my heart was very heavy . I cried with many tears . I did not want you to be sad , but I just wanted to let you know that I love you very much who made me sad . It was not only me that he made sad . It was every one of you , in a way . I say in a way because I do not want to be too strong in what I say . * That man has been punished enough by what most of you did to him . * So now , you ought to forgive him and comfort him . If you do not , then he may be so sad he cannot bear it . * So I beg you , show your love to him again . * Here is why I wrote to you . I wanted to test you to find out if you obey me in all matters . * Anyone whom you forgive , I also forgive . And if I have had anything to forgive , I have already forgiven it for your sakes , just as if we were standing before Christ . * I have done this so that Satan will not get ahead of us . We know his tricks . of Troas to tell the good news of Christ , the door was open for me to work for the Lord . * But my mind was troubled because I did not find my brother Titus there . So I said goodbye to the people there and went on to the country of Macedonia . Christ . And Christ leads us to victory every time . To know Christ is like a sweet smell . And God lets us carry that sweet smell of his truth everywhere . * We are like a sweet smell to God . It is the smell of Christ we have . We have this sweet smell among the people who are saved and among those who are lost . * To some it smells like death and brings death to those who are lost . To others it smells like life and it brings life to those who are saved . Who is good enough for such things ? * We are not like some people . They tell Gods message to make money . But we tell it with a true heart just as God told it to us . We tell it as if we stood before God . And we tell it with Christs help . * missing fehlt /missing

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