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2 Corinthians 2:4 · BSB
2:4 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.
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…treated. We don't have that letter. It's not in our Bibles. It's been lost in history. But it's mentioned in 2 Corinthians several times. So in2 Corinthians 2 verse 4, Paul says that he wrote out of much affliction and anguish of heart, he says. In other words, Paul was chewed up about the way he'd been treated…
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…right? The third letter is actually mentioned. So you see there the lost letter, then comes 1 Corinthians. That third letter is mentioned in2 Corinthians 2, verse 4, where Paul talks about having made a painful visit. to the city of Corinth, and then having written what he calls a tearful letter that caused the…
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…began to believe those. So Paul went back to try to clarify things, and they they rejected him. And so what he what we find in 2 Corinthians, in2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 4, he wrote another letter to them. And here's what he says in this letter for I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart with many…
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…we have two letters that he wrote to the church at Corinth. The letter that I'm referencing here, we don't have. But he makes reference to it in2 Corinthians chapter 2, verses 1 through 4. Here's what he says For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the…
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…visit, 2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 1. Then on a third letter to the church, he called it his severe letter from he wrote from being in Ephesus,2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 3 through 4, 7, uh chapter 7, verse 8. And then he wrote his fourth letter to the church at Corinth, 2 Corinthians, while he was in uh Macedonia, and then he…
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…Don't worry. Or you can write one. Anyways, guys, the next one is the pain of rebuke. The pain of rebuke. The pain of rebuke. The pain of rebuke.2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 4. 2 Corinthians 2, 4. You know, it's odd, eh? Part of the reason I am overweight is because every time my dad would discipline me, he would take me…
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…believers. Believers who weren't walking well before the Lord, who weren't pursuing holiness as they ought. He wrote to the Corinthian church in2 Corinthians 2, verse 4, For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love…
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