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For if the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body itself, would it therefore not be of the body itself ?

And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body itself, would it therefore not be of the body itself?

Because Aloha is not of tumult, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of Aloha:

But I entreat of you, my brethren, for the house of Stephano, because you know they are the first-fruits of Akaia, and have disposed themselves for the service of the saints,

But I am glad of the coming of Stephano, and of Fortunatos, and of Akaiakos, because your deficiency with me they have fulfilled.

9 and because of these we had concluded (for) death; [fn] that we should not have hope in ourselves, but in Aloha, who raiseth the dead:

BUT I testify to Aloha on my soul that because I am sparing of you, I have not come to Kurinthos.

Not because we are lords of your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titos my brother. But leaving them, I went forth to Makedunia.

But if the ministry of death in the writing engraven on stones was with glory, as that the sons of Israel could not look on the face of Musha because of the glory of his face which is abolished,

Therefore because we have this hope, we speak the more boldly,

(to) them whose minds the god of this world hath blinded because they believe not; lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Meshiha, who is the image of Aloha, should arise upon them.

THEREFORE, because we know the terror of our Lord, we persuade men; and to Aloha we are manifest; but I hope that to your minds also we are manifest.

For the love of the Meshiha constraineth us, because we judge this, That if one for every man hath died, then (was) every man dead.

Because then we have these promises, my beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all impurity of the flesh and of the spirit, and accomplish sanctification in the fear of Aloha.

but now I exercise joy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow hath brought you to repentance. For you were sorry towards Aloha; so that in nothing will you suffer loss from us.

For this cause we were consoled, and with our consolation more abundantly did we rejoice in the joy of Titos; because his spirit had been refreshed with you all.

Because in whatever I had boasted to him concerning you, I have not been ashamed; but, as of every thing we had spoken truth with you, so also our boasting unto Titos hath been found in truth.

And his affection is greatly enlarged toward you, when he remembers your obedience; because with fear and with trembling you received him.