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Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

So although I wrote unto you, [I wrote] not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

But thanks be to God, which putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

[Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:

ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.

For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;

seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strong holds);

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),