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[1] BUT I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in sadness.
[2] For if I make you sad, who can make me happy, but him whom I made sad?
[3] And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I come to you I may not be made sad by those who ought to make me joyful; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
[4] For out of great affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote you with many tears; not to make you feel distressed, but that you may know the abundant love I have for you.
[5] But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me only, but to a certain degree all of you, therefore the news will not be a shock to you.
[6] The rebuke of many persons is sufficient for such a man.
[7] So that from henceforth you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one will be overcome with overmuch grief.
[8] I beseech you therefore that you confirm your love toward him.
[9] For that is why I wrote you, that I might know by your word whether you are obedient in all things.
[10] To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for anything which I have forgiven, to whomever I forgave it, it is for your sakes I forgave it in the presence of Christ:
[11] Lest Satan might take advantage of us: for we know his devices.
[12] Furthermore, when I came to Troas with the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me of the LORD,
[13] I could not rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; hence I took leave of them, and left for Mac-e-do'ni-a.
[14] Now thanks be to God, who has made us in the pattern of Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge through us in every place.
[15] For we are a sweet savour to God through Christ, in those who are saved and in those who perish:
[16] To the one the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is worthy of these things?
[17] For we are not like those who corrupt the word of God: but according to the truth, and as men of God we speak through Christ in the sight of God.
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