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and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

Therefore we have been comforted: and in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.

Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

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

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

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

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

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.