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2 Corinthians 2:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" 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. "

2 Corinthians 2:4

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

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.

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.

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

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

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From This Chapter

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 2:5

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

2 Corinthians 2:6

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

2 Corinthians 2:7

"So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow."
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