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2 Corinthians 2:3

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And I wrote this very thing, 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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What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it, though I did regret; for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement, whosoever he be.

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command.

Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.




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