2 Corinthians 2:1-11
Reaffirm Your Love
1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
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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.
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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.
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5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
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6 Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was inflicted] of many.
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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.
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8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him.
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9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
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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;
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11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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