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2 Corinthians 2

Reaffirm Your Love

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But I determined this  1for my own sake, that I  awould not come to you in sorrow again.

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For if I  acause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?

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This is the very thing I  awrote you, so that  bwhen I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having  cconfidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I  awrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

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But  aif any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree-- 1in order not to say too much--to all of you.

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Sufficient for such a one is  athis punishment which was inflicted by the majority,

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so that on the contrary you should rather  aforgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

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Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

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For to this end also  aI wrote, so that I might  1 bput you to the test, whether you are  cobedient in all things.

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But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes  ain the presence of Christ,

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so that no advantage would be taken of us by  aSatan, for  bwe are not ignorant of his schemes.

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Now when I came to  aTroas for the  bgospel of Christ and when a  cdoor was opened for me in the Lord,

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I  ahad no rest for my spirit, not finding  bTitus my brother; but  ctaking my leave of them, I went on to  dMacedonia.

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 aBut thanks be to God, who always  bleads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the  csweet aroma of the  dknowledge of Him in every place.

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For we are a  afragrance of Christ to God among  bthose who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

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 ato the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is  badequate for these things?

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For we are not like many,  1 apeddling the word of God, but  bas from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ  cin the sight of God.



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