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But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you again in sorrow. 

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For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? 

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And this is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be _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 so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you. 

## Forgive and Love the Sinner 

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But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree--in order not to say too much--to all of you. 

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Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which _was inflicted_ by the majority, 

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so that on the contrary you should rather graciously forgive and comfort _him_, lest such a one be swallowed up by excessive sorrow. 

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Therefore I encourage you to reaffirm _your_ love for him. 

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For to this end also I wrote, so that I might know your proven character, whether you are obedient in all things. 

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But one whom you graciously forgive anything, I _graciously forgive_ also. For indeed what I have graciously forgiven, if I have graciously forgiven anything, _I did it_ for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 

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so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. 

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Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord, 

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I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother. But saying farewell to them, I went on to Macedonia. 

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But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and manifests through us the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 

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For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 

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to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 

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For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.