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2 Corinthians 7:3

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I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

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And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our[1] hearts, to be known and read by all.

So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.

It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.

So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.




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