will also
acknowledge to the end, [1:14]as you have also acknowledged us in part,
that we are your rejoicing as you also are ours in the day of the Lord
Jesus.

5 [1:15]And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that you
might have a second benefit, [1:16]and to pass by you into Macedonia,
and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward
to Judea. [1:17] Wishing this therefore, did I use lightness? or what I
wish do I wish according to the flesh, that with me there may be the
yes, yes, and the no, no? [1:18]But as God is faithful, our word to
you was not yes and no. [1:19]For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who
was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not
yes and no, but was yes in him; [1:20]for all the promises of God, the
yes in him, and the Amen in him, are for glory to God by us. [1:21]And
he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God,
[1:22] who has also sealed us and given us the pledge of the Spirit in
our hearts.

6 [1:23]But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have
not yet come to Corinth. [1:24]Not that we are lords of your faith, but
co-laborers of your joy; for you stand firm by the faith. [2:1]But I
determined this with myself, not to come again to you in sorrow;
[2:2]for if I grieve you, who is he that gladdens me, but he that is
grieved by me? [2:3]And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not
have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in
you all that my joy is the joy of you all. [2:4]For I wrote to you in
much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you
should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have
abundantly for you.

7 [2:5]But if any one has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in
part, that I may not be hard upon you, [has grieved you] all,
[2:6]Sufficient for such a one is this rebuke by many; [2:7]so that on
the other hand you ought to forgive and comfort him, that he may not be
overwhelmed with excessive sorrow. [2:8]I exhort you, therefore, to
confirm your love to him; [2:9]for I wrote for this purpose, that I
might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
[2:10]But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have
shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the
presence of Christ, [2:11]that we may not be circumvented by Satan; for
we are not ignorant of his devices.

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