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As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.

Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by you all.

I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you.

And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.

while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

Did I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel without cost to you?

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

And they glorified God because of me.

But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage--

But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained by angels through an intermediary.

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first;

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,

not because of works, lest any man should boast.

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

making the most of the time, because the days are evil.

because we are members of his body.