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2 Corinthians 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:1 - For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:2 - For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:3 - And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:4 - For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Forgive the Sinner

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:5 - Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:6 - For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:7 - so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:8 - So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:9 - For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:10 - Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:11 - so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Triumph in Christ

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:12 - When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:13 - my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:14 - But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:15 - For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:16 - to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:17 - For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
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2 Corinthians Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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