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And his affections have increased more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him in fear and trembling.

For you know the gracious gift of our LORD Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might be rich.

For if there is a willingness to give, every man can give according to that which he has, and not according to that which he has not, and his gift will be acceptable.

For indeed he has accepted our appeal; and because he was very desirous, he went to you of his own accord.

And we have also sent with him our brother, who has received praise throughout all the churches for his preaching of the gospel;

So let every man give according to what he has decided in his mind, not grudgingly or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

As it is written, He has distributed liberally; and given to the poor; and his righteousness endures for ever.

Thanks be to God for his incomparable gift.

For there are men who say that his epistles are weighty and powerful; but his bodily appearance is weak, and his speech foolish.

But I am afraid, that just as the serpent through his deceitfulness misled Eve, so your minds should be corrupted from the sincerity that is in Christ.

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

And I was lowered in a basket from a window over the city wall, and thus I escaped from his hands.

I am surprised how soon you have turned to another gospel, away from Christ who has called you by his grace;

But when it pleased God, who had chosen me from my birth, and called me by his grace,

To reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately disclose it to any human being:

But when Cephas came to An''ti-och, I reproved him to his face, because he was to be blamed.

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed as a covenant. He did not say, To your seeds, as of many, but to your seed, as one, that is Christ.

So if you belong to Christ, then you are descendants of Abraham, and his heirs according to the promise.

But he is under guardians and stewards, until the time appointed by his father.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son who, born of a woman, became subject to the law,