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| 2:1 |
 ut I determined this with my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse. |
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| 2:2 |
For if I make you sorie, who is hee then that maketh mee glad, but the same which is made sorie by me. |
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| 2:3 |
And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all. |
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| 2:4 |
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you. |
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| 2:5 |
But if any haue caused griefe, hee hath not grieued mee, but in part: that I may not ouercharge you all. |
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| 2:6 |
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. |
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| 2:7 |
So that contrarywise, yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest perhaps, such a one should be swallowed vp with ouermuch sorrow. |
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| 2:8 |
Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirme your loue towards him. |
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| 2:9 |
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proofe of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. |
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| 2:10 |
To whom yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for yoforgaue I itgaue I it, in the person of Christ, |
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| 2:11 |
Lest Satan should get an aduantage of vs: for wee are not ignorant of his deuices. |
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| 2:12 |
Furthermore when I came to Troas, to preach Christs Gospel, and a doore was opened vnto mee of the Lord, |
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| 2:13 |
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. |
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| 2:14 |
Now thankes bee vnto God, which alwayes causeth vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place. |
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| 2:15 |
For wee are vnto God, a sweet sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them that perish. |
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| 2:16 |
To the one wee are the sauour of death vnto death; and to the other, the sauour of life vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things? |
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| 2:17 |
For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ. |
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