2 Corinthians 1:23
I call God as my witness - he knows my heart! It was in order to spare you that I decided not to go to Corinth.
2 Corinthians 1:24
We are not trying to dictate to you what you must believe; we know that you stand firm in the faith. Instead, we are working with you for your own happiness.
2 Corinthians 2:1
So I made up my mind not to come to you again to make you sad.
2 Corinthians 2:2
For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up? Only the very persons I had made sad.
2 Corinthians 2:3
That is why I wrote that letter to you - I did not want to come to you and be made sad by the very people who should make me glad. For I am convinced that when I am happy, then all of you are happy too.
2 Corinthians 2:4
I wrote you with a greatly troubled and distressed heart and with many tears; my purpose was not to make you sad, but to make you realize how much I love you all.
2 Corinthians 2:5
Now, if anyone has made somebody sad, he has not done it to me but to all of you - in part, at least. (I say this because I do not want to be too hard on him.)
2 Corinthians 2:6
It is enough that this person has been punished in this way by most of you.
2 Corinthians 2:7
Now, however, you should forgive him and encourage him, in order to keep him from becoming so sad as to give up completely.
2 Corinthians 2:8
And so I beg you to let him know that you really do love him.
2 Corinthians 2:9
I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions.
2 Corinthians 2:10
When you forgive people for what they have done, I forgive them too. For when I forgive - if, indeed, I need to forgive anything - I do it in Christ’s presence because of you,
2 Corinthians 2:11
in order to keep Satan from getting the upper hand over us; for we know what his plans are.
Enjoy Gospel Works Media Productions. At Gospel Works our focus is on presenting an informative, and entertaining quality production of Biblical Truths for Sunday School Classes, Biblical Workshops, and Bible Study Groups.
Music: reverbnation.c...
The music, and video content is either owned, or licensed, or is a third party performance.
Gospel Works does not own the rights to media such as hymns, biblical content, and songs that may be in the public domain, but are licensed, or registered to other legal parties.
Негізгі бет A Community Forgives,
Пікірлер