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I hope to send him to you presently, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

For he has been longing to see you all, and has been depressed because he knew you had heard that he had been sick.

Therefore I have sent him quickly, so that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be relieved from anxiety.

I do not say this because I want a gift, but because I want to see the fruits of the gospel increased to you.

For though I am far away from you in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your orderliness and the sincerity of your faith in Christ.

And when this epistle has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of the La-od-i-ce''ans; and likewise you read the epistle written from La-od-i-ce''a.

But we, brethren, have been deprived of your affection for a little while, yet only in presence and not in heart, so we have with great love vigorously endeavored to see your faces.

But now since Ti-mo''the-us has returned to us from you, and brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, just as we also long to see you:

Except, before God to abundantly offer supplication, night and day, to see your faces, and to complete that which is lacking in your faith?

See that none of you render evil for evil; but always follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Who alone has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach, and whom no man has seen, nor can see: to him be honor and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

I am anxious to see you; I still remember your tears; I am filled with joy,

See that Ze''nas, the scribe, and A-pol''los are given a good farewell on their journey, that they lack nothing.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. By putting all things under his control, he left nothing that he did not put under subjection to him. But now we do not see yet that all things are in subjection to him.

We see that he is Jesus who humbled himself to be a little lower than the angels, through his suffering and his death, but now he is crowned with glory and honor; for he tasted death for the sake of every one but God.

So we see that they could not enter in because they did not believe.

Who serve the semblance and shadow of heavenly things, just as it was commanded to Moses when he was about to make the tabernacle: See that you make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is customary for some; but exhorting one another: and so much the more when you see that day approaching.

See, therefore, how much he has suffered from the hands of sinners, from those who were a contradiction to themselves, lest you become weary and faint in your soul.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see our LORD.