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For we would not, brethren, haue you ignorant of our trouble which came to vs in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, aboue strength, in so much that we dispaired euen of life.

You also helping together by prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs by the meanes of many persons, thankes may bee giuen by many on our behalfe.

For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie, not with fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God, wee haue had our conuersation in the world, and more aboundantly to youwards.

For we write none other things vnto you, then what you reade or acknowledge, and I trust you shall acknowledge euen to the end.

For the Sonne of God Iesus Christ, who was preached among you by vs, euen by me, and Syluanus and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay, but in him, was yea.

For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and in him Amen, vnto the glory of God by vs.

Moreouer, I call God for a record vpon my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinth.

Not for that we haue dominion ouer your faith, but are helpers of your ioy: for by faith ye stand.

For if I make you sorie, who is hee then that maketh mee glad, but the same which is made sorie by me.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proofe of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

To whom yee forgiue any thing, I forgiue also: for if I forgaue any thing, to whom I forgaue it, for your sakes forgaue I it, in the person of Christ,

Lest Satan should get an aduantage of vs: for wee are not ignorant of his deuices.

For wee are vnto God, a sweet sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them that perish.

To the one wee are the sauour of death vnto death; and to the other, the sauour of life vnto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ.

Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.

But if the ministration of death written, and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly beholde the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glorie was to be done away:

For if the ministration of condemnation bee glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glorie.

For euen that which was made glorious, had no glorie in this respect by reason of the glorie that excelleth.