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But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
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For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?
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And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, 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 to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
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But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent--not to be too severe.
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This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man,
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so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
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Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.
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For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.
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Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
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lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.