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Now he who establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God;

Moreover, I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I have not as yet come to Corinth.

Now thanks [be] to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart.

And such trust we have through Christ toward God.

Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] from God;

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty; not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us.

For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace may, through the thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God.

For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Now he that hath wrought us for this same thing [is] God, who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we are sober, [it is] for your cause.

And all things [are] from God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Now then we are embassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.