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2 Corinthians 2:9 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. "
2 Corinthians 2:9
Verse in Context
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7 so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
10 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
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2 Corinthians 2:1
"But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow."
2 Corinthians 2:2
"For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?"
2 Corinthians 2:3
"And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be shared by all of you."
2 Corinthians 2:4
"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you."
2 Corinthians 2:5
"But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all."
2 Corinthians 2:6
"This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;"
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