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  • 1. But I determined this in my selfe, yt I would not come againe to you in heauynesse.
  • 2. For if I make you sorie, who is he yt shoulde make me glad, but the same which is made sorie by me?
  • 3. And I wrote this same vnto you, lest when I came, I shoulde take heauynesse of them of whom I ought to reioyce. This confidence haue I toward you all, that my ioy is [the ioy] of you all.
  • 4. For in great affliction and anguishe of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that ye shoulde be made sorie, but that ye myght perceaue the loue which I haue, most specially vnto you.
  • 5. But yf any man hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made me sorie, but partly, lest I shoulde greeue you all.
  • 6. It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many.
  • 7. So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauynesse.
  • 8. Wherfore I pray you, that you would confirme your loue towardes hym.
  • 9. For this cause veryly did I write, that I myght knowe the profe of you, whether ye be obedient in all thynges.
  • 10. To whom ye forgeue any thyng, I forgeue also. For if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the sight of Christe.
  • 11. Lest Satan shoulde circumuent vs: For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.
  • 12. Furthermore, when I came to Troada, to [preache] Christes Gospell, and a doore was opened vnto me of the lorde,
  • 13. I had no rest in my spirite, because I founde not Titus my brother, but toke my leaue of them, and went away into Macedonia.
  • 14. Nowe thankes be vnto God, whiche alwayes geueth vs the victorie in Christe, and openeth the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.
  • 15. For we are vnto God the sweete sauour of Christe in them that are saued, and in them which perisshe.
  • 16. To the one part [are we] the sauour of death, vnto death: and vnto the other part [are we] the sauour of lyfe vnto lyfe. And who is meete vnto these thynges?
  • 17. For we are not as many are, whiche chop & chaunge with the word of God: but as of purenesse of God, in the syght of God, so speake we in Christe.