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2 Corinthians 2 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:1 - But it was my decision for myself, not to come again to you with sorrow.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:2 - For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:3 - And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:4 - For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:5 - But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:6 - Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:7 - So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:8 - For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:9 - And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:10 - But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ;
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:11 - So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:12 - Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:13 - I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:14 - But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:15 - For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:16 - To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:17 - For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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