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wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers: but expounding the prophets, not for unbelievers so much as for those who believe.

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is certainly amongst you.

by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds.

for as by Adam all die, even so by Christ shall all be restored to life.

If it be not so, what can they effect who are baptized for the dead? if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead?

and so it is written, the first man Adam was made an animating soul, the last Adam was made a vivifying spirit.

for as we have born the image of the terrestrial, so we shall bear the image of the celestial.

and if it be so considerable as to induce me to go, they shall accompany me.

The churches of Asia, salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you with much christian affection, and so do the church that is in their house.

for as I have greatly suffered for Christ, so I have been greatly comforted thro' Christ.

and the hopes I had of you continue still the same, knowing that as you have had your share of suffering, so you will likewise have of consolation.

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life:

and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,

being assisted by your prayers for me, so that thanks may be returned by many, for the gracious deliverance procur'd me by their prayers.

The affliction I have had, comes only from a particular quarter, so that my resentment does not affect the whole church.

so that now you ought rather to forgive, and comfort him, for fear he should be overwhelm'd by an excess of sorrow.

I was so uneasy in my mind for not finding Titus my brother, that taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

by the one my preaching is taken as a deadly poison, to the other it is a reviving potion. and who is so sufficient for such a commission?

and do not act as Moses did, who threw a veil over his face so as to hinder the children of Israel from perceiving the end of that which was to cease:

but if our gospel be obscure, it is so only to those who are lost: