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2 Corinthians 2:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So I decided that my next visit to you would not be another visit to make you sad.

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I tell you this, and I ask God to be my witness that this is true: The reason I did not come back to Corinth was that I did not want to punish or hurt you.

I’m writing this before I come so that when I am there I will not have to use my authority to punish you. The Lord gave me that authority to make you stronger, not to destroy you.

When I wrote to you before, I was very troubled and my heart was full of sadness. I wrote with many tears. I did not write to make you sad, but to let you know how much I love you.

Which do you want: that I come to you with punishment, or that I come with love and gentleness?

I will send Artemas and Tychicus to you. When I send them, try hard to come to me at Nicopolis. I have decided to stay there this winter.

I cannot be there with you in person, but I am with you in spirit. And I have already judged the man who did this. I judged him the same as I would if I were really there.

I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.

Paul and Barnabas were against this teaching and argued with these men about it. So the group decided to send Paul, Barnabas, and some others to Jerusalem to talk more about this with the apostles and elders.

The Lord’s followers decided that they would each send as much as they could to help their brothers and sisters who lived in Judea.

Barnabas wanted to bring John Mark with them too.




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