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His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

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

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

as it is written, "HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE 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 personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible."

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

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

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

(for He who effectually worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Gentiles),

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

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.