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¹ But I determined this with my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse. ² For if I make you sorie, who is hee then that maketh mee glad, but the same which is made sorie by me. ³ And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you.

⁵ But if any haue caused griefe, hee hath not grieued mee, but in part: that I may not ouercharge you all. ⁶ Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. ⁷ So that contrarywise, yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest perhaps, such a one should be swallowed vp with ouermuch sorrow. ⁸ Wherefore I beseech you, that you would confirme your loue towards him. ⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proofe of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. ¹⁰ To whom yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the person of Christ, ¹¹ Lest Satan should get an aduantage of vs: for wee are not ignorant of his deuices.

¹² Furthermore when I came to Troas, to preach Christs Gospel, and a doore was opened vnto mee of the Lord, ¹³ I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. ¹⁴ Now thankes bee vnto God, which alwayes causeth vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place. ¹⁵ For wee are vnto God, a sweet sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them that perish. ¹⁶ To the one wee are the sauour of death vnto death; and to the other, the sauour of life vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷ For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ.