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and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that *ye* by *his* poverty might be enriched.

For he received indeed the entreaty, but, being full of zeal, he went of his own accord to you;

each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

according as it is written, He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his righteousness remains for ever.

Thanks [be] to God for his unspeakable free gift.

because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

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

But when God, who set me apart [even] from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.

but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

For each shall bear his own burden.

For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life: