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          DASV: 2 Corinthians 2    

1 But I decided that I would not pay you another painful visit.
2 For if I make you grieve, who then will there be to make
me glad, but the one who I made to grieve?
3 And I wrote to you about this very thing, so that when I
come, I might not grieve over those who should have made me
rejoice; for I am confident in all of you that you would
share my joy.
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote
to you with many tears, not to make you grieve, but that
you might know the abundant love that I have for you.

5 But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me,
but to some extent, not to exaggerate, all of you.
6 This punishment inflicted on such a person by the majority
is enough.
7 So now on the contrary you should forgive and comfort
him, so that he may not be overwhelmed with his excessive
grief.
8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
9 For this is the reason I wrote to you, to prove whether
you would be obedient in all things.
10 But if you forgive anyone, I forgive them too. For what
I have forgiven, if I have really forgiven anything,
I did for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
11 so that Satan might not outsmart us; for we are not
ignorant of his schemes.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and
found a door opened to me in the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find my
brother Titus. So I said good-bye to them and went on
to Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal
procession in Christ, and through us spreads the fragrance
of his knowledge everywhere.
15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who
are being saved and among those who are perishing,
16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other
a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for
these things?
17 For we are not like so many, peddling the word of God for
profit, but we speak in Christ before God as people of
sincerity, as people sent from God.

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