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So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift.

And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.

Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that as he is Christ's, so are we.

so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's field.

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 when I was with you and was in want, I did not burden any one, for my needs were supplied by the brethren who came from Macedo'nia. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.

So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel--

As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.

and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

And with him the rest of the Jews acted insincerely, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity.

Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

Did you experience so many things in vain? --if it really is in vain.

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.

This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.