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2Cor 1:1: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christby the will of God, and Timothy ourbrother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth,with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
2Cor 1:2: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, andfrom the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Cor 1:3:Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, andthe God of all comfort;
2Cor 1:4:Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort themwhich are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comfortedof God.
2Cor 1:5:For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so ourconsolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2Cor 1:6:And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which iseffectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: orwhether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2Cor 1:7:And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of thesufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
2Cor 1:8:For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to usin Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that wedespaired even of life:
2Cor 1:9:But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust inourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2Cor 1:10:Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust thathe will yet deliver us;
2Cor 1:11: Yealso helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us bythe means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
2Cor 1:12:For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicityand godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we havehad our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2Cor 1:13:For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; andI trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
2Cor 1:14:As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as yealso are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2Cor 1:15:And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might havea second benefit;
2Cor 1:16:And to pass by you into Macedonia,and to come again out of Macedoniaunto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
2Cor 1:17:When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that Ipurpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yeayea, and nay nay?
2Cor 1:18:But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
2Cor 1:19:For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preachedamong you by us, even by me and Silvanus andTimotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
2Cor 1:20:For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory ofGod by us.
2Cor 1:21:Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, andhath anointed us, is God;
2Cor 1:22:Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
2Cor 1:23:Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not asyet unto Corinth.
2Cor 1:24:Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: forby faith ye stand.
2Cor 2:1:But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you inheaviness.
2Cor 2:2:For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same whichis made sorry by me?
2Cor 2:3:And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow fromthem of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy isthe joy of you all.
2Cor 2:4:For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with manytears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which Ihave more abundantly unto you.
2Cor 2:5:But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I maynot overcharge you all.
2Cor 2:6:Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
2Cor 2:7: Sothat contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhapssuch a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2Cor 2:8:Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
2Cor 2:9:For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whetherye be obedient in all things.
2Cor 2:10:To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, towhom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
2Cor 2:11:Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of hisdevices.
2Cor 2:12:Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,