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And their prayers for you will express their affection for you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us-a field that reaches even to you.

Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

And I know that this man-whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows-

Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong-not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will do what is right, even if we appear to have failed.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Aim for perfect harmony, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Paul, an apostle-sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead-

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.

But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by His grace, was pleased