Lesson: The Dragon Persecutes the Church
Reading: Not ignorant of his devices
Reference: 2 Cor. 2:4-11

II 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.
II Corinthians 2:5: But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
II Corinthians 2:6: Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
II Corinthians 2:7: So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
II Corinthians 2:8: Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
II Corinthians 2:9: For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
II Corinthians 2:10: To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
II Corinthians 2:11: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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