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as you also join in helping us by your prayers, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

Since I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favor;

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice; for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

And we do this so that we may not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses' face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.

For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done in the body, whether good or evil.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart.

And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,

and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled about you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance; for you felt a godly grief, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.

so that we might urge Titus that, as he had already made a beginning, so he should also complete this generous undertaking among you.

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.