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If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?

And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?

For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle because I persecuted ye Church of God.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we haue testified of God, that he raised vp Christ: whom hee raised not vp, if so bee that the dead rise not.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

For the loue of Christ constreineth vs, because wee thus iudge: that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort, yea and exceedingly the more ioyed wee for the ioy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

Haue I committed an offence in abasing my selfe, that you might be exalted, because I haue preached to you the Gospel of God freely?

Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.

And that because of false brethren vnawares brought in, who came in priuily to spie out our libertie, which wee haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Wherefore then serueth the Law? it was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to whome the promise was made, and it was ordeyned by Angels in the hand of a Mediatour.

And because yee are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.

Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?

Hauing the vnderstanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnesse of their heart:

Let no man deceiue you with vaine words: for because of these things commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.

Redeming the time, because the dayes are euill.

Euen as it is meete for mee to thinke this of you all, because I haue you in my heart, in as much as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the Gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

For hee longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that yee had heard that he had bene sicke.

Because for the worke of Christ he was nigh vnto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lacke of seruice toward me.