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For no man ever yet hated his own body; but nourishes it and cherishes it, even as Christ does for his church.

And for this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all spiritual understanding:

For we are the true people of circumcision, who worship God in Spirit, and glory in Jesus Christ, and yet do not rely on things of the flesh.

For though I am far away from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your orderliness and the sincerity of your faith in Christ.

But we, brethren, have been deprived of your affection for a little while, yet only in presence and not in heart, so we have with great love vigorously endeavored to see your faces.

Yet do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But if we believe not in him, yet he will still remain faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

Persecution and sorrows: you know the things which I endured at Antioch, and at Ico''ni- um, and at Lys''tra; how I was persecuted; and yet from all these my LORD delivered me.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. By putting all things under his control, he left nothing that he did not put under subjection to him. But now we do not see yet that all things are in subjection to him.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot share our infirmities, but we have one who was tempted with everything as we are, and yet without sin.

For he was yet in the loins of his forefather Abraham, when Mel-chis''e-dec met him.

And yet, it is far more evident because he said that another priest would rise after the order of Mel-chis''e-dec,

By this the Holy Spirit revealed that the way of the saints would not yet be made known, so long as the old tabernacle remained;

You have not yet come face to face with blood in your striving against sin.

For you have yet neither come near the roaring fire, nor the darkness nor the storm nor the tempest,

And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be warmed, and be filled; yet you do not give to them those things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?

You covet, and do not obtain; you kill and envy, but you cannot possess; you strive and fight, yet you have nothing, because you do not ask.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous; and yet he does not resist you.

Whom you have not seen, but whom you yet love, and in whose faith you rejoice with exceeding joy that cannot be described;

The one to whom you are coming is the living stone, whom men have rejected, and yet he is chosen and precious with God;