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This is also why I have so often been prevented from visiting you.

So when I have finished this task and made certain that they have received this fruit, I will leave for Spain and visit you on my way there;

so that you may welcome her in the Lord, as God's people should, and give her whatever assistance she may need from you; for she has been a big help to many people — including myself.

Timothy, my fellow-worker, sends greetings to you; so do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.

in that you have been enriched by him in so many ways, particularly in power of speech and depth of knowledge.

so that you are not lacking any spiritual gift and are eagerly awaiting the revealing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

For the Messiah did not send me to immerse but to proclaim the Good News — and to do it without relying on "wisdom" that consists of mere rhetoric, so as not to rob the Messiah's execution-stake of its power.

so that no one should boast before God.

so that your trust might not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.

For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person's own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God's Spirit.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us.

As for me, brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as babies, so far as experience with the Messiah is concerned.

So neither the planter nor the waterer is anything, only God who makes things grow —

So if anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are that temple.

Let no one fool himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise (by this world's standards), let him become "foolish," so that he may become really wise.

So let no one boast about human beings, for all things are yours —

So, you should regard us as the Messiah's servants, as trustees of God's secret truths.

So don't pronounce judgment prematurely, before the Lord comes; for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness; he will expose the motives of people's hearts; and then each will receive from God whatever praise he deserves.

After all, what makes you so special? What do you have that you didn't receive as a gift? And if in fact it was a gift, why do you boast as if it weren't?

You are glutted already? You are rich already? You have become kings, even though we are not? Well, I wish you really were kings, so that we might share the kingship with you!