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📚✭But I determined this with myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 2 📚For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then who makes me glad, but the same one who is made sorrowful by me? 3 📚And I wrote this same thing to you, so that, when I came, I would not have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy; having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of all of you. 4 📚For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.Forgiveness to those who had caused grief
5 📚✭But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but to some extent, not to be too severe, all of you. 6 📚✭Sufficient for such a man is the punishment which was inflicted by many of you. 7 📚✭So that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive him, and encourage him, or perhaps such a one would be swallowed up with too much sorrow. 8 📚Therefore I plead with you to reaffirm your love toward him. 9 📚For to this end also I wrote, that I might see if you would stand the test and be obedient✭ in all things. 10 📚✭Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if I forgave anyone anything, it was for your sakes that I forgave it in the presence of Christ, 11 📚✭so that Satan might not take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
Competent for Christ’s service through Christ
12 📚Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door✭ was opened to me by the Lord, 13 📚I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus✭ my brother. But taking leave of them, I went on from there to Macedonia✭.
14 📚✭Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and spreads everywhere the aroma✭ of his knowledge through us. 15 📚For we are to God a fragrance✭ of Christ among those who are saved, and among those who perish. 16 📚✭To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient✭ for these things? 17 📚For we are not like many, adulterating✭ the word of God. But as sincere✭ men, but as men belonging to God, in the sight of God✭ we speak in Christ.