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1 - And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

2 - for if I make you sorry, then who is he who is making me glad, except he who is made sorry by me?

3 - and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

4 - for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

5 - And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

6 - sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that <FI>is<Fi> by the more part,

7 - so that, on the contrary, <FI>it is<Fi> rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

8 - wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

9 - for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

10 - And to whom ye forgive anything--I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven <FI>it<Fi> , because of you--in the person of Christ--<FI> I forgive it,<Fi>

11 - that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

12 - And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

13 - I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

14 - and to God <FI>are<Fi> thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

15 - because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

16 - to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

17 - for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity--but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.