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ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea *is* in him.

For whatever promises of God [there are], in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.

Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.

But to whom ye forgive anything, *I* also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your sakes in [the] person of Christ;

that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.

Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the] Lord,

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?

For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

For also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

For if that annulled [was introduced] with glory, much rather that which abides [subsists] in glory.

But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.