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statui autem hoc ipse apud me ne iterum in tristitia veniremad vos

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si enim ego contristo vos et quis est qui me laetificet nisiqui contristatur ex me

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et hoc ipsum scripsi ut non cum venero tristitiam supertristitiam habeam de quibus oportuerat me gaudere confidens inomnibus vobis quia meum gaudium omnium vestrum est

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nam ex multa tribulatione et angustia cordis scripsi vobisper multas lacrimas non ut contristemini sed ut sciatis quamcaritatem habeo abundantius in vobis

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si quis autem contristavit non me contristavit sed ex parteut non onerem omnes vos

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sufficit illi qui eiusmodi est obiurgatio haec quae fit apluribus

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ita ut e contra magis donetis et consolemini ne forteabundantiori tristitia absorbeatur qui eiusmodi est

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propter quod obsecro vos ut confirmetis in illum caritatem

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ideo enim et scripsi ut cognoscam experimentum vestrum an inomnibus oboedientes sitis

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cui autem aliquid donatis et ego nam et ego quod donavi siquid donavi propter vos in persona Christi

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ut non circumveniamur a Satana non enim ignoramuscogitationes eius

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cum venissem autem Troadem propter evangelium Christi etostium mihi apertum esset in Domino

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non habui requiem spiritui meo eo quod non invenerim Titumfratrem meum sed valefaciens eis profectus sum in Macedoniam

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Deo autem gratias qui semper triumphat nos in Christo Iesuet odorem notitiae suae manifestat per nos in omni loco

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quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo in his qui salvi fiunt etin his qui pereunt

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aliis quidem odor mortis in mortem aliis autem odor vitaein vitam et ad haec quis tam idoneus

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non enim sumus sicut plurimi adulterantes verbum Dei sed exsinceritate sed sicut ex Deo coram Deo in Christo loquimur

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002:001
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

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For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

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And I wrote this same unto you, 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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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

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But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

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Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

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So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

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Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

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

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To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

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Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

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I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

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Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

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To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

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