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But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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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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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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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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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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Sufficient to such a man is
this punishment, which
was inflicted
of many.
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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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Wherefore
I beseech you that ye would confirm
your
love toward him.
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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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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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Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his
devices.
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Furthermore, when I came to Troas to
preach
Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened
unto me of the Lord,
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I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking
my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
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Now thanks
be
unto God, which always
causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every
place.
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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that
perish:
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To the one
we are
the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto
life. And who
is
sufficient for these things?
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For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of
God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
CHAPTER CORINTHIANS 3
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
others,
epistles of commendation
to you, or
letters
of commendation from you?
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Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and
read of all men:
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Forasmuch as ye are
manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered
by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
tables of the heart.
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And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves
to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency
is
of God;
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Who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit
giveth life.
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But if the ministration of death, written
and
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance;
which
glory
was to be done away:
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How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
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For if the ministration of condemnation
be
glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness
exceed in glory.
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For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason
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