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For he longed to see you all, and was anxious, because he knew ye had heard, that he was sick.

For, because of the Messiah's work, he came near to death, and little regarded his life, that he might fulfill what you lacked in the ministration to me.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in our Lord. To write these [fn] again and again to you, is not irksome to me, because they make you cautious.

But these things, which had been my excellence, I have accounted a detriment, because of the Messiah.

8 And now also I account them all a detriment, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus the Messiah my Lord; for the sake of whom, I have parted with all things, and have accounted [fn] as dung, that I might gain the Messiah,

Yet I say this, not because I was in want; for I have learned to make that satisfy me, which I have.

because of the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of truth of the gospel;

And also to you, who were before alienated and enemies in your minds, because of your evil deeds,

And in him ye are also complete, because he is the head of all principalities and authorities.

8 so we also fondled [fn] , and were desirous to impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.

And, because we could no longer endure it, we were willing to be left alone at Athens,

and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past.

Because our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;

We are bound to give thanks to God always, on your account, my brethren, as it is proper; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.

3 Let no one deceive you in any way; because [fn] , unless there previously come a defection, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life.

It was not because we have no authority, but that we might give you an example in ourselves, that ye might imitate us.

because they wished to be teachers of the law, while they understood not what they speak, nor the thing about which they contend.

13 me [fn] , who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a reviler; but I obtained mercy, because I did it while ignorant and without faith.

Because whatever is created by God is good; and there is nothing which should be rejected if it be received with thankfulness;