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Because of this, we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

Because of the proof given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all,

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we too are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

And they were glorifying God because of me.

It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that somehow I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

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

Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! Father!"

but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Therefore, ridding yourselves of falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE OF YOU WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, because we are parts of one another.

See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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

because we are parts of His body.