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2 Corinthians 7:3

Weymouth NT

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

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And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.

And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

For this reason I write thus while absent, that when present I may not have to act severely in the exercise of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

Our letter of recommendation is yourselves–a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.

And I am justified in having this confidence about you all, because, both during my imprisonment and when I stand up in defence of the Good News or to confirm its truth, I have you in my heart, sharers as you all are in the same grace as myself.

Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.




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