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2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.
KJV
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
WEB
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
ASV
But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
DARBY
But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief.
BLB
For I decided this within myself, not to come to you⁺ again in grief.
ÅB
Men også for min egen skyld foresatte jeg meg at jeg ikke igjen ville komme til dere med sorg.
OTB
Men jeg bestemte meg for min egen del, at jeg ikke ville besøke dere i sorg igjen.
B1930
Men også for min egen skyld foresatte jeg mig at jeg ikke atter vilde komme til eder med sorg.

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  • 2 Corinthians 13:10

    Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

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  • 2 Corinthians 1:23

    Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:20–21

    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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  • 2 Corinthians 2:4

    For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

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  • 1 Corinthians 4:21

    What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

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  • Acts 15:2

    When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

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  • Acts 11:29

    Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa:

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  • Titus 3:12

    When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

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