Reaffirm Your Love 1 TNT But I determened this in my silfe that I wolde not come agayne to you in hevines. BSB BSB: So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
2 TNT For yf I make you sorye who is it that shuld make me glad but the same which is made sory by me? BSB BSB: For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?
3 TNT And I wrote this same pistle vnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynes of them of whom I ought to reioyce. Certaynly this confidence have I in you all that my ioye is the ioye of you all. BSB BSB: I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be grieved by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.
4 TNT For in great affliccion and anguysshe of hert I wrote vnto you with many teares: not to make you sory but that ye myght perceave the love which I have most specially vnto you. BSB BSB: For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
5 TNT If eny man hath caused sorow the same hath not made me sory but partely: lest I shuld greve you all. BSB BSB: Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.
6 TNT It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many. So that now contrary wyse ye ought to forgeve him and comforte him: BSB BSB: The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
7 TNT lest that same persone shuld be swalowed vp with over moche hevines. BSB BSB: So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
8 TNT Wherfore I exhorte you that love maye have stregth over him. BSB BSB: Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
9 TNT For this cause verely dyd I write that I myght knowe the profe of you whether ye shuld be obediet in all thinges. BSB BSB: My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.
10 TNT To whom ye forgeve enythinge I forgeve also. And verely if I forgeve enythinge to whom I forgave it for youre sakes forgave I it in the roume of Christ BSB BSB: If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,
11 TNT lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs. BSB BSB: in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
Triumph in Christ 12 TNT When I was come to Troada for Christes gospels sake (and a great dore was openned vnto me of the Lorde) BSB BSB: Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord,
13 TNT I had no rest in my sprete because I founde not Titus my brother: but toke my leave of them and went awaye into Macedonia. BSB BSB: I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
14 TNT Thankes be vnto God which alwayes geveth vs the victorie in Christ and openeth the saver of his knowledge by vs in every place. BSB BSB: But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
15 TNT For we are vnto God the swete savoure of Christ both amonge them that are saved and also amonge them which perisshe. BSB BSB: For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
16 TNT To the one parte are we the savoure of deeth vnto deeth. And vnto the other parte are we the savoure of lyfe vnto lyfe. And who is mete vnto these thinges? BSB BSB: To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?
17 TNT For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ. BSB BSB: For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
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