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So that we requested Titus, that as he had begun, so he would perfect in you also the same beneficence.

And as ye are enriched in every thing, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in our love towards you, so abound ye in this beneficence also.

11 And now complete ye by action, what ye purposed; that as ye had a promptitude in your purposing, so ye may fulfill [fn] in action, according to your ability.

so that, if the Macedonians should come with me, and should find you unprepared, we-not to say, ye-should be put to shame for that glorying in which we gloried.

For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work.

so that in every thing, ye may be enriched unto all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God.

Do ye look on outward appearances? If any one is confident in himself that he is of the Messiah, let him know, from himself, that as he is of the Messiah, so also are we.

But let him who saith so, consider this, that such as we are in our epistolary discourse, when absent, such also are we in action, when present.

16 and that we shall so abound also, as to make announcements beyond you. It is not in the measure of others, [fn] in things ready prepared, that we will glory.

But I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah.

But what I do, that also I will do; that I may cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion: so that in the thing wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

If they are Hebrews, so I also: or if they are Israelites, I also. If they are the seed of Abraham, I also.

Glorying must be, but it is not profitable: so I proceed to visions and revelations of our Lord.

And I beseech God, that there may be no evil in you, so that the proof of us may appear: and yet, that ye may be doers of good things, though we be as reprobates.

not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection to them; so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

Are ye so foolish, that having begun in the Spirit, ye now would consummate in the flesh?

But I say, that the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant, although he is lord of all;

So also we, while we were children, were in subordination under the elements of the world.

And as then, he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him [fn] of the Spirit; so also [fn] now.

So then, my brethren, we are not sons of the bond-woman, but sons of the free woman.