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So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled about you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

In this we find comfort. In addition to our own consolation, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by all of you.

And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of all of you, and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

For he not only accepted our appeal, but since he is more eager than ever, he is going to you of his own accord.

With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his proclaiming the good news;

And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found eager in many matters, but who is now more eager than ever because of his great confidence in you.

As it is written, "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."

So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds.

but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.

But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased

to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any human being,

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned;

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, "And to offsprings," as of many; but it says, "And to your offspring," that is, to one person, who is Christ.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,