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2 Corinthians 2:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. "

2 Corinthians 2:17

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15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

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2 Corinthians 2:1

"But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness."

2 Corinthians 2:2

"For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?"

2 Corinthians 2:3

"And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all."

2 Corinthians 2:4

"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you."

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"But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all."

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"Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many."
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