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as you also join in helping us by your prayers, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

For we write you nothing other than what you can read and also understand; I hope you will understand until the end—

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not "Yes and No"; but in him it is always "Yes."

For in him every one of God's promises is a "Yes." For this reason it is through him that we say the "Amen," to the glory of God.

I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in the faith.

For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice; for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person;

So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

I wrote for this reason: to test you and to know whether you are obedient in everything.

Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ.

And we do this so that we may not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

When I came to Troas to proclaim the good news of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord;

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

to the one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not peddlers of God's word like so many; but in Christ we speak as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God and standing in his presence.

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory!

for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!