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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-2:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.1",
        "text": "But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-2:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.2",
        "text": "For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?"
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-2:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.3",
        "text": "And I wrote this very thing, 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."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-2:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.4",
        "text": "For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you."
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-2:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.5",
        "text": "But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all."
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        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-2:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.6",
        "text": "Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many;"
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-2:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.7",
        "text": "so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow."
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        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-2:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.8",
        "text": "Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-2:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.9",
        "text": "For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-2:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.10",
        "text": "But to whom ye forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of Christ;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-2:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.11",
        "text": "that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-2:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.12",
        "text": "Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,"
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-2:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.13",
        "text": "I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-2:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.14",
        "text": "But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-2:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.15",
        "text": "For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2CO-2:16",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.16",
        "text": "to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2CO-2:17",
        "verseRef": "2CO.2.17",
        "text": "For we are not as the many, corrupting 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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