2Corinthians:2

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* But I determined this with myself , that I would not come again to you in (note :)Causing grief among you , which he would have done if he had come to them before they had repented .(:note ) heaviness . * For if I make you sorie , who is he then that shoulde make me glad , but ye same which is made sorie by me ? * And I wrote this same unto you , lest , when I came , I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice ; having (note :)For I trusted that you would immediately take that out of the way which you knew I was discontented with , considering how you are persuaded that my joy is your joy .(:note ) confidence in you all , that my joy is [the joy ] of you all . * For in great affliction , &amp ; anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares : not that yee should be made sorie , but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue , specially vnto you . * * It is sufficient vnto the same man , that hee was rebuked of many . * So that contrariwise ye [ought ] rather to (note :)That whereas before you punished him sharply , you should now forgive him .(:note ) forgive [him ], and comfort [him ], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow . * Wherefore I beseech you that ye would (note :)That at my entreaty you would declare by the consent of the whole church , that you take him again as a brother .(:note ) confirm [your ] love toward him . * For this cause also did I write , that I might knowe the proofe of you , whether yee would be obedient in all things . * 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 (note :)Truly , and from the heart .(:note ) person of Christ ; * Lest Satan should get an advantage of us : for we are not ignorant of his (note :)Of his mischievous counsel and devilish will .(:note ) devices . * * I had no rest in my spirit , because I founde not Titus my brother , but tooke my leaue of them , and went away into Macedonia . * Now thanks [be ] unto God , which always causeth us to triumph in Christ , and maketh manifest the (note :)He alludes to the anointing of the priests , and the incense of the sacrifices .(:note ) savour of his knowledge by us in every place . * * To the one [we are ] the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life . (note :)Again , he dismisses all suspicion of arrogance , attributing all things that he did to the power of God , whom he serves sincerely , and with honest affection . And he makes them witnesses of this , even to the sixth verse of the next chapter ( 2Co_2:17 ; 2Co_3:6 ).(:note ) And who [is ] sufficient for these things ? * For we are not as many , which (note :)We do not handle it craftily and covetously , or less sincerely than we ought . And he uses a metaphor , which is taken from hucksters , who used to play the false harlot with whatever came into their hands .(:note ) 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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