### Douay Rheims Bible

2nd Corinthians 1

## The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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| # Chapter 2
#### 1 | But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.
#### 2 | For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?
#### 3 | And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
#### 4 | For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.
#### 5 | And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden you all.
#### 6 | To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is given by many:
#### 7 | So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
#### 8 | Wherefore, I beseech you, that you would confirm your charity towards him.
#### 9 | For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.
#### 10 | And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.
#### 11 | That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.
#### 12 | And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
#### 13 | I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.
#### 14 | Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.
#### 15 | For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish.
#### 16 | To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?
#### 17 | For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God; but with sincerity, but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

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