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But when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written: "DEATH HAS BEEN SWALLOWED UP in victory.

but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia; for I am going through Macedonia,

But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost;

So do not look down on him, anyone. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly encouraged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has the opportunity.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but has been yes in Him.

But I call God as witness to my soul, that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

Not that we domineer over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

But I decided this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.

For if I cause you sorrow, who then will be the one making me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not for me, but in some degree—not to say too much—for all of you.

But one whom you forgive anything, I also forgive; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did so for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but saying goodbye to them, I went on to Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of Him in every place.