2 Corinthians 2 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

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Some ancient authorities read For.

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

2For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

3And 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.

4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

5But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

6Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by

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Greek the more.

the many;

7so that contrariwise ye should

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Some ancient authorities omit rather.

rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you,

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Some ancient authorities read whereby.

whether ye are obedient in all things.

10But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the

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Or, person

presence of Christ;

11that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12Now when I came to Troas for the

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Greek good tidings. See marginal note on Mt. 4:23.

gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

13I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

14But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.

15For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that

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Or, are being saved

are saved, and in them that

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Or, are perishing

perish;

16to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17For we are not as the many,

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Or, making merchandise of the word of God. Compare 2 Pet. 2:3.

corrupting 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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2 Corinthians 2 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

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