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because a great and important door has opened for my work, and there are many people opposing me.

I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus are here, because they have helped make up for your not being here.

Moreover, our hope for you remains staunch, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, you will also share in the encouragement.

I could not rest, because I failed to find my brother Titus. So I left the people there and went on to Macedonia.

Now if that which worked death, by means of a written text engraved on stone tablets, came with glory — such glory that the people of Isra'el could not stand to look at Moshe's face because of its brightness, even though that brightness was already fading away —

What is more, their minds were made stonelike; for to this day the same veil remains over them when they read the Old Covenant; it has not been unveiled, because only by the Messiah is the veil taken away.

They do not come to trust because the god of the ‘olam hazeh has blinded their minds, in order to prevent them from seeing the light shining from the Good News about the glory of the Messiah, who is the image of God.

For what we are proclaiming is not ourselves, but the Messiah Yeshua as Lord, with ourselves as slaves for you because of Yeshua.

because we know that he who raised the Lord Yeshua will also raise us with Yeshua and bring us along with you into his presence.

For the Messiah's love has hold of us, because we are convinced that one man died on behalf of all mankind (which implies that all mankind was already dead),

now I rejoice not because you were pained, but because the pain led you to turn back to God. For you handled the pain in God's way, so that you were not harmed by us at all.

This is the reason we have been encouraged. Besides our own encouragement, we had the even greater joy of seeing how happy Titus was, because all of you set his mind at rest.

With these two we are sending another brother of ours, one whose diligence we have tested many times in many ways, but who is now all the more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

because rendering this holy service not only provides for the needs of God's people, but it also overflows in the many thanks people will be giving to God.

And in their prayers for you they will feel a strong affection for you because of how gracious God has been to you.

because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly. On the contrary, they have God's power for demolishing strongholds. We demolish arguments

because it is not the one who recommends himself who is worthy of approval, but the one whom the Lord recommends.

If I did want to boast, I would not be foolish; because I would be speaking the truth. But, because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what my words or deeds may warrant.

because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.

Indeed, the question came up only because some men who pretended to be brothers had been sneaked in — they came in surreptitiously to spy out the freedom we have in the Messiah Yeshua, so that they might enslave us.