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1 And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness. 2 For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me. 3 And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you. 5 And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all. 6 Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many. 7 So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness. 8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him. 2 Corinthians 2:1-8, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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