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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. |
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