Thematic Bible
2 Corinthians 2:1 (show verse)
I decided I would not pay you another painful visit.
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2 Corinthians 2:2 (show verse)
For if I pain you, then who is to give me pleasure? None but the very people I am paining!
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2 Corinthians 2:3 (show verse)
So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you.
2 Corinthians 2:4 (show verse)
For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear ??not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.
2 Corinthians 2:5 (show verse)
If a certain individual has been causing pain, he has been causing pain not so much to me as to all of you ??at anyrate (for I am not going to overstate the case) to a section of you.
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2 Corinthians 2:6 (show verse)
This censure from the majority is severe enough for the individual in question,
2 Corinthians 2:7 (show verse)
so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse.
2 Corinthians 2:8 (show verse)
So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.
2 Corinthians 2:9 (show verse)
For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient.
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2 Corinthians 2:10 (show verse)
If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes,
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2 Corinthians 2:11 (show verse)
in case Satan should take advantage of our position ??for I know his man?uvres!
2 Corinthians 2:12 (show verse)
Well, when I reached Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, though I had a wide opportunity in the Lord,
2 Corinthians 2:13 (show verse)
my spirit could not rest, because I did not find Titus my brother there; so I said goodbye and went off to Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 2:14 (show verse)
Wherever I go, thank God, he makes my life a constant pageant of triumph in Christ, diffusing the perfume of his knowledge everywhere by me.
2 Corinthians 2:15 (show verse)
I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing,
2 Corinthians 2:16 (show verse)
to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career?
2 Corinthians 2:17 (show verse)
I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.