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Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things.

I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;