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For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

As the one who is made of earth, so also are those who are made of earth, and as the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I gave directions about it to the churches of Galatia, so you do also.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

who delivered us from so great a risk of death, and will deliver us, in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver us again,

while you also join in helping on our behalf by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many.

But God is faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no."

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

But if the ministry of death in letters carved on stone came with glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was transitory,

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

So then, from now on we know no one from a human point of view, if indeed we have known Christ from a human point of view, but now we know him this way no longer.

I do not say this to condemn you, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.