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Let no man, by pretense of sincerity, doom you, so that you worship angels; for he is bold about the things he has not seen, and foolishly he is proud of his intellectual powers.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another; and if any one has a complaint against his fellow man, just as Christ forgave you, so should you also forgive.

So that I may make it manifest and speak about it as I should.

Not only have you sounded out the word of our LORD in Mac-e-do''ni-a and A-cha''ia but also, in every place your faith in God has been heard so that we need not speak anything about you.

SO you yourselves, my brethren, know that our entrance among you was not in vain:

But just as we have been examined by God to be entrusted with his gospel, even so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who searches our hearts.

For you remember, brethren, that we labored hard, working night and day, with our hands, so that we would not burden you.

And we bore the testimony to you, so that you may live a life worthy of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

But we, brethren, have been deprived of your affection for a little while, yet only in presence and not in heart, so we have with great love vigorously endeavored to see your faces.

So that no man among you might be disheartened by these tribulations: for you, yourselves, know that this is our destiny.

FROM this time then, my brethren, we beseech you and entreat you earnestly by our LORD Jesus, that as you have been taught by us how you ought to live and to please God, so you will increase more and more.

That you may lead a life of good example toward outsiders, so that you depend on no man.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have died in Jesus, God will bring with him.

Then we, who are alive, and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet our LORD in the air: and so shall we ever be with our LORD.

So that even we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God over your faith and patience in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure;

When he comes to be glorified by his saints and to perform his wonders among his faithful ones, so that our testimony, concerning you, may be believed in that day.

Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is reverenced; so that even in the temple of God, he sits as a god, and shows himself, as though he were a god.

Neither did we eat bread for nothing from any of you, but worked with hard labor and toiled night and day so that we might not be a burden to any of you:

When I went to Mac-e-do''ni-a, I besought you to remain at Eph''e-sus, so that you might charge certain ones not to teach diverse doctrines,

Namely Hy-me-n''us and Al-ex-an-der, whom I have delivered to Satan, to be disciplined so that they may no longer blaspheme.