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   joy: for by faith ye stand.   
      
   2 Corinthians 2   
      
   1 (2Co 1:23; 1Co 4:21) But I determined this for myself,   
   that I would not come again to you in sorrow.   
   2 (2Co 7:8) For if I make you sorrowful, who then will there be   
   to make me rejoice, but the one whom I have made sorrowful?   
   3 (Gal 5:10; 2Co 8:22) I wrote concerning this matter to you,   
   so that when I came, I would not be grieved by those in whom   
   I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all,   
   that my joy is your joy.   
   4 (2Co 7:12) 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 more abundantly for you.   
      
   [1] 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.   
   [4] 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.   
      
   Forgiveness for the Offender   
      
   5 (Gal 4:12) But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me,   
   but to some extent all of you, not to put it too severely.   
   6 (1Co 5:4-5)This punishment which was inflicted by many   
   on such a man is sufficient.   
   7 (Eph 4:32) So on the contrary, you ought to forgive him   
   and comfort him, lest perhaps he might be swallowed up   
   with excessive sorrow.   
   8 Therefore I ask you to confirm your love toward him.   
   9 (2Co 10:6; Php 2:22) For to this end I also wrote,   
   so that I might know that you are proving yourselves   
   by whether you are being obedient in all things.   
   10 (1Co 5:4) Whomever you forgive anything, I also forgive.   
   For if I forgave someone anything, for your sakes I forgave   
   it in Christ,   
   11 (1Pe 5:8; Lk 22:31) lest Satan should take advantage of us.   
   For we are not ignorant of his devices.   
      
   [5] But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that   
   I may not overcharge you all.   
   [6] Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of   
   many.   
   [7] So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him,   
   lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.   
   [8] Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.   
   [9] For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you,   
   whether ye be obedient in all things.   
   [10] To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any   
   thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of   
   Christ;   
   [11] Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of   
   his devices.   
      
   Paul's Anxiety in Troas   
      
   12 (Ac 14:27; 16:8) Furthermore, when I came to Troas   
   to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,   
   13 (2Co 7:5-6; 12:18) I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find   
   Titus my brother. So taking my leave of them, I went from there   
   into Macedonia.   
   14 (SS 1:3; 2Co 8:16) Now thanks be to God who always causes   
   us to triumph in Christ and through us reveals the fragrance   
   of His knowledge in every place.   
   15 (1Co 1:18; Eze 20:41) For we are to God a sweet fragrance   
   of Christ among those who are saved and among those who perish.   
   16 (Lk 2:34; Jn 9:39) To the one we are the fragrance of death,   
   which brings death, and to the other the fragrance of life,   
   which brings life. Who is sufficient for these things?   
   17 (2Co 4:2; 1:12) For we are not as many are who peddle   
   the word of God. Instead, being sent by God, we sincerely speak   
   in Christ in the sight of God.   
      
   [12] Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door   
   was opened unto me of the Lord,   
   [13] I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but   
   taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.   
   [14] Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ,   
   and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.   
   [15] For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved,   
   and in them that perish:   
   [16] To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the   
   savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?   
   [17] For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of   
   sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.   
      
   2 Corinthians 3   
      
   Ministers of the New Covenant   
      
   1 (Ac 18:27; 2Co 5:12) Do we begin again to commend ourselves?   
   Or do we need, as some others, letters of commendation to you,   
   or letters of commendation from you?   
   2 You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.   
   3 (Ex 24:12; Jer 31:33) For you are prominently declared to be   
   the letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink   
   but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone   
   but on human tablets of the heart.   
   4 (Eph 3:12) We have such trust through Christ toward God,   
   5 (1Co 15:10) not that we are sufficient in ourselves to take credit   
   for anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,   
   6 (Lk 22:20; Jn 6:63) who has made us able ministers of the new covenant,   
   not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills,   
   but the Spirit gives life.   
   7 (Ex 24:12; 31:18) If the ministry that brought death, written   
   and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel   
   could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory   
   of his countenance, the glory which was to fade away,   
   8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?   
   9 (Heb 12:18-21; Ro 3:21-22) For if the ministry of condemnation   
   is glorious, the ministry of righteousness much more exceeds   
   it in glory.   
   10 Even that which was made glorious had no glory in comparison   
   to the glory that excels.   
   11 For if that which fades was glorious, that which remains   
   is much more glorious.   
   12 (2Co 7:4; Ac 4:13) Seeing then that we have such hope,   
   we speak with great boldness,   
   13 (Ex 34:33-35; 2Co 3:7) not as Moses, who put a veil over his face,   
   so that the children of Israel could not look intently at the end   
   of what was fading away.   
   14 (Ac 13:15; Ro 11:25) Instead, their minds were blinded.   
   For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the   
   reading of the old covenant, the veil which was done away   
   with in Christ.   
   15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is in their hearts.   
   16 (Ex 34:34; Isa 25:7) Nevertheless when anyone turns to the Lord,   
   the veil is removed.   
   17 (Gal 4:6; Jn 8:32) Now the Lord is the Spirit.   
   And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.   
   18 (Ro 8:29; 1Co 13:12; 2Co 4:4) But we all, seeing the glory   
   of the Lord with unveiled faces, as in a mirror,   
   are being transformed into the same image from glory   
   to glory by the Spirit of the Lord.   
      
   [1] Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others,   
   epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?   
   [2] Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:   
   [3] Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ   
   ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living   
   God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.   
   [4] And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:   
   [5] Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of   
      
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