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But I have determined this in myself, that I will not with sorrow again come to you. |
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And I determined this with myself, that I would not again come to you in sadness. |
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For if I grieve you, who shall refresh me, but he whom I had grieved? |
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For if I should make you sad, who would make me joyful, unless he whom I had made sad? |
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And I have written to you this very [epistle], lest when I come they grieve me, they who ought to refresh me. But I confide in you, that my joy is that of all of you. |
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And I wrote that very thing to you, lest when I came, those persons whom I ought to make joyful, should make me sad. For I have confidence concerning you, that my joy is the joy of you all. |
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And from great affliction and anxiety of heart I wrote those things to you with many tears, not that you might grieve, but (also) that you might know the abundant love I have towards you. |
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And in much affliction, and in anguish of heart, I wrote those things to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the exceeding love I have for you. |
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But if any one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me (only), but a part of you all: that the word may not weigh upon [the whole of] you. |
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And if one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me [only], but, -that the declaration may not bear too hard on you- in a measure, all of you. |
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But sufficient for him was this chastisement, which was from many. |
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And sufficient for him, is this rebuke proceeding from many: |
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And now on the other hand it behoves you to forgive him and console him, lest he who is such an one be swallowed up of excessive grief. |
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so that, on the other hand, ye ought to forgive him and console him; lest he who is such a man, should be swallowed up with excessive grief. |
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Therefore I entreat of you to confirm to him your love. |
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I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him your love. |
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On this account also I have written, to ascertain by experiment whether in every thing you will obey me. |
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For it was for this also that I wrote [to you], that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in every thing. |
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But to whom you forgive, I also. For I, too, what I have forgiven, have on your account forgiven in the presence of the Meshiha: |
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And whom ye forgive, I also [forgive]: for that which I forgave to any one, for your sakes I forgave it, in the presence of the Messiah; |
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lest Satana get the advantage of you; for we know his devices. |
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lest Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices. |
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2:12 ¶
WHEN, in preaching the gospel of the Meshiha, I had come to Troas, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, |
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Moreover, when I came to Troas in announcing the Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, |
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I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titos my brother. But leaving them, I went forth to Makedunia. |
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there was no quietude in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: and I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia. |
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But thanks unto Aloha, who in all time maketh us a triumph in the Meshiha, and maketh manifest by us the perfume of his knowledge in every place. |
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But thanks be to God, who always procureth us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place. |
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For we are a fragrant perfume in the Meshiha unto Aloha in those who are saved, and in those who perish. |
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For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live and in them that perish: |
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To these as a perfume of death unto death, and to those as a perfume of life unto life. And unto these who is equal? |
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to these, an odor of death unto death; and to those, an odor of life unto life. And who is adequate to these things! |
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For we are not as the rest who commix the word of Aloha; but as in truth, and as from Aloha, before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak. |
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For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God. |
