Study Desk

So I urge you to show that you really do love him.

so that we will not be taken advantage of by the Adversary — for we are quite aware of his schemes!

I could not rest, because I failed to find my brother Titus. So I left the people there and went on to Macedonia.

unlike Moshe, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Isra'el would not see the fading brightness come to an end.

So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by Adonai the Spirit.

So if indeed our Good News is veiled, it is veiled only to those in the process of being lost.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it will be evident that such overwhelming power comes from God and not from us.

We always carry in our bodies the dying of Yeshua, so that the life of Yeshua may be manifested in our bodies too.

For we who are alive are always being handed over to death for Yeshua's sake, so that Yeshua's life also might be manifested in our mortal bodies.

All this is for your sakes, so that as grace flows out to more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to overflow and bring glory to God.

Yes, while we are in this body, we groan with the sense of being oppressed: it is not so much that we want to take something off, but rather to put something on over it; so that what must die may be swallowed up by the Life.

So we are always confident — we know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord;

So it is with the fear of the Lord before us that we try to persuade people. Moreover, God knows us as we really are; and I hope that in your consciences you too know us as we really are.

We are not recommending ourselves to you again but giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you will be able to answer those who boast about a person's appearance rather than his inner qualities.

So from now on, we do not look at anyone from a worldly viewpoint. Even if we once regarded the Messiah from a worldly viewpoint, we do so no longer.

God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God's righteousness."

We try not to put obstacles in anyone's path, so that no one can find fault with the work we do.

So, just to be "fair" (I am using the language of children), open wide your hearts too.

now I rejoice not because you were pained, but because the pain led you to turn back to God. For you handled the pain in God's way, so that you were not harmed by us at all.

So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of either the one who did the wrong or the one wronged, but so that before God you could see for yourselves how deep is your devotion to us.