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2 Corinthians 2:3

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

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.

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What will ye? should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that ye might have a second grace;

And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

I rejoice that I place confidence in you in everything.

But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you.

And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.

I have trusted to you in the Lord, that ye will have nothing different in mind; and he troubling you shall bear judgment, whoever he be.

And we have had confidence in the Lord for you, that what we announce to you, and ye do and will do.

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote to thee, knowing that thou wilt do above what I say to thee.




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