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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him.

For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are "yes"; therefore also through him is the "amen" to the glory of God through us.

Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us is God,

But I call upon God as witness against my life, that in order to spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives—but as from God—we speak before God in Christ.

revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

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.

For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," is the one who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthenware jars, in order that the extraordinary degree of the power may be from God and not from us.

For all these things are for your sake, in order that the grace that is increasing through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we are attempting to persuade people, but we are revealed to God, and I hope to be revealed in your consciences.

For if we are out of our senses, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation,