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[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; immediately 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.

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbour.

For each man shall bear his own burden.

For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him