Peshitta New Testament

Peshitta New Testament — Murdock — Section 98

Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul, 23 that it was in order to spare you, that I came not to Corinth. (24) Not that we are lords over your 24 faith, but we are helpers of your joy ; for it is by faith ye stand. (II.) And I determined this with II. myself, that I would not again come to you in sad- ness. (2) For if I should make you sad, who 2 would make me joyful, unless he whom I had made sad ? (3) And I wrote that very thing to 3 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. (4) And in much affliction, and in 4 anguish of heart, I wrote those things to you, Avitli man}^ tears ; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the exceeding love I have for you. — (5) And if one hath caused grief, he hath. 5 2 CORINTHIANS, III. 329 not grieved me [only], but, — that the declaration may not bear too hard on you — in a measure, all 6 of you. (6) And sufficient for him, is this rebuke 7 proceeding from many : (7) 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 8 with excessive grief (8) I therefore beseech you, 9 that ye confirm to him your love. (9) For it was for this also that I wrote [to you], that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be obedient in 10 every thing. (10) 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 11 Messiah ; (11) lest Satan should overreach us ; for we know his devices. 12 Moreover, when I came to Troas in announcing the Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the 13 Lord, (18) there was no quietude in my spirit, be- cause I found not Titus my brother: and I took 14 leave of them, and went into Macedonia. — (14) But thanks be to God, who always procureth us a tri- umph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place. 15 (15) For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live'' and in them that