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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you.

God is the witness, that our word to you was not Yes and No.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus the Messiah, who was preached to you by us, [fn] by me, by Sylvanus, and by Timotheus, was not Yes and No; but it was Yes in him.

20 For all the promises of God in him, the Messiah, are Yes; for which cause, we through him give [fn] Amen, to the glory of God.

Now it is God who establisheth us, with you, in the Messiah, and hath anointed us,

Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul, that it was in order to spare you, that I came not to Corinth.

But thanks be to God, who always procureth us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place.

For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live and in them that perish:

For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God.

For ye know that ye are an epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on the tablets of the heart of flesh.

And such confidence have we in the Messiah towards God.

Not that we are sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our efficiency is from God:

But we have renounced the concealments of dishonor, and we walk not in craftiness, nor do we treat the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, we exhibit ourselves to all the consciences of men before God.

to them whose minds the God of this world hath blinded, in order that they might not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of the Messiah (who is the likeness of God) should dawn upon them.

Because God, who commanded the light to arise from darkness, hath himself shined in our hearts, that we might be illuminated with the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of Jesus the Messiah.

But we have this treasure in an earthen vessel, that the excellency of the power might be from God, and not from us.

For all things are for your sakes, that while grace aboundeth by means of many, thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.

For we know that, if our house on earth-this of the body, were dissolved, yet we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

And he that prepareth us for this thing, is God: who hath given us the earnest of his Spirit.

Therefore because we know the fear of our Lord we persuade men; and we are made manifest unto God; and I hope also, we are made manifest to your minds.