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So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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

Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by you all.

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

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

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest 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 preaching of the gospel;

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

Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

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

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

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

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

was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood,

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

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many; but, referring to one, "And to your offspring," which is Christ.

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