2 Corinthians

Chapter 2

He grants a pardon to the incestuous man, upon his doing penance.

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    But I determined this with myself, that I would not to come to you again in sorrow:

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    For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that should make me glad, but he who is made sorrowful by me?

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    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 that of you all.

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    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.

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    And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part, that I may not burden you all.

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    To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many:

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    So that on the contrary you should rather forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

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    Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him.

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    For to this end also did I write, that I might know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

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    And to whom you have forgiven any thing, I also: for, what I forgave, if I have forgiven any thing, it was for your sakes in the person of Christ,

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    That we may not be circumvented by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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    And when I was come to Troas, for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

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    I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother, but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

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    Now thanks be to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and maketh manifest the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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    For we are unto God the good odour of Christ in them who are saved, and in them who perish.

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    To some, 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?

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    For we are not as many adulterating the word of God, but with sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.