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for as many as [are] promises of God, in him [are] the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, [is] God,

And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

and to God [are] thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] of God,

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

because [it is] God who said, Out of darkness light [is] to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

for the all things [are] because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

And He who did work us to this self-same thing [is] God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

for whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; whether we be of sound mind -- [it is] to you,

And the all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,