2Corinthians:2

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* But I determined this with myself , not to come to you again in sorrow . * For if I make you sorrowful , who is he then that can make me glad , but the same who is made sorrowful by me ? * And I wrote this same to you ; that I may not , when I come , have sorrow upon sorrow , from them of whom I ought to rejoice : having confidence in you all , that my joy is the joy of you all . * For out of much affliction and anguish of heart , I wrote to you with many tears : not that you should be made sorrowful : but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you . * And if any one have caused grief , he hath not grieved me ; but in part , that I may not burden you all . * To him who is such a one , this rebuke is sufficient , which is given by many : * So that on the contrary , you should rather forgive him and comfort him , lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow . * Wherefore , I beseech you , that you would confirm your charity towards him . * For to this end also did I write , that I may know the experiment of you , whether you be obedient in all things . * And to whom you have pardoned any thing , I also . For , what I have pardoned , if I have pardoned any thing , for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ . * That we be not overreached by Satan . For we are not ignorant of his devices . * And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ , and a door was opened unto me in the Lord , * I had no rest in my spirit , because I found not Titus my brother ; but bidding them farewell , I went into Macedonia . * Now thanks be to God , who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus , and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place . * For we are the good odour of Christ unto God , in them that are saved , and in them that perish . * To the one indeed the odour of death unto death : but to the others the odour of life unto life . And for these things who is so sufficient ? * For we are not as many , adulterating the word of God ; but with sincerity , but as from God , before God , in Christ we speak .

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