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For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye will acknowledge even to the end;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

Moreover, I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I have not as yet come to Corinth.

Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes [I forgave it], in the person of Christ;

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

To the one [we are] the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who [is] sufficient for these things?

For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away;

For if the ministration of condemnation [was] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

For if that which was done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.

But their minds were blinded: for until this day the same vail remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.