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Because of this, among you many [are] weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up;

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven [it], because of you -- in the person of Christ -- [I forgive it,]

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

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory;

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

because [it is] God who said, Out of darkness light [is] to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

for the all things [are] because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.

because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;