Chapter 2

Prosecuting the true cause which in the last Chapter he gave of his not coming, ℣.6 he pardoneth now after some part of penance, him that for incest he excommunicated in the last epistle, requiring them obediently to consent thereunto. ℣.12 Then of his going from Troas in to Macedonia; God every where giving him the triumph.

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   And I have determined with my-self this same thing, not to come to you again in sorrow.

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   For if I make you sorry; & who is it that can make me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

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   And this same I wrote to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, of the which I ought to rejoice: trusting in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

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   For of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you by many tears: not that you should be made sorry; but that you may know what charity I have more aboundantly toward you.

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   And if any man hath made sorrowful, not me hath he made sorrowful, but in part, that I burden not all you.

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   To him that is such a one, this rebuke sufficeth that is given of many:

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   so that contrarywise you should rather pardon and comfort him, lest perhaps such an one be swallowed up with over great sorrow.

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   For the which cause I beseech you that you confirm charity toward him.

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   For therefore also have I written that I may know the experiment of you, whether in all things you be obedient.

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    And whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, my self also that which I pardoned, if I pardoned any thing, for you in the person of Christ,

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    that we be not circummvented of Satan. For we are not ignorant of his cogitations.

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    And when I was come to Troas for the Gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in our Lord,

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    I had no rest in my spirit, for that I found not Titus my brother, but bidding them fare well, I went forth into Macedonia.

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    And thanks be to God, who always triumpheth us in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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    For we are the good odour of Christ unto God in them that are saved, & in them that perish.

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    To some indeed the odour of death unto death: but to others the odour of life unto life. And to these things who is so sufficient?

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    For we are not as very many, adulterating the word of God, but of sincerity, and as of God, before God, in Christ we speak.