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For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

For we do not write other things to you than what you read or even recognize; and I hope that you will recognize even to the end,

For Jesus Christ the Son of God, the One proclaimed among you by us, through me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become Yes and No, but has been Yes in Him.

For as many promises as are of God, in Him they are yes, and in Him are Amen, for glory to God through us.

Not that we rule over your faith, but we are fellow-workers of your joy. For by faith you stand.

For if I grieve you, who yet will be making me glad, if not the one being grieved by me?

For out of much trouble and agony of heart I wrote to you, through many tears, not that you be grieved, but that you know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

This censure by the majority is enough for such a one.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if you are obedient in all things.

But to whom you forgive anything, I also forgive . For also if I have forgiven anything, of whom I have forgiven it, it is for you, in Christ's person,

so that we should not be overreached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his devices.

And coming to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

For we are a sweet smell to God because of Christ in those being saved, and in those being lost;

to the one, an odor of death unto death, and to the other, an odor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not as the many, peddling the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God. We speak in Christ, in the sight of God.

who also made us able ministers of a new covenant, not of letter, but of Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

For if the ministry of condemnation was glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

For even that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, because of the surpassing glory.

For if the thing done away was through glory, much rather the thing remaining is in glory.

And not as "Moses, who put a veil over his face," for the sons of Israel not to gaze at the end of the thing being done away. Ex. 34:35