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Read Full Chapter (2 Corinthians 2) 2 Corinthians 2:4-6 KJV
"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many."
2 Corinthians 2:4-6 in Context (Verses 1–9 KJV)
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But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
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Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
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So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
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Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
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For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.