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for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that [is] by the more part,

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For I wrote you(A) out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.

Forgiveness for the Offender

If anyone has caused grief,(B) he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. The punishment(C) inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.

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