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Now he that hath wrought us to this very thing is God, who hath also given us the earnest of the Spirit.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but we are made manifest to God, and I trust we are made manifest in your consciences also.

For if we are transported beyond ourselves, it is to God; if we are sober, it is for your sakes.

And all things are from God, who hath reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation: Namely,

that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their traspasses to them, and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Therefore we are embassadors for Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

For he hath made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him.

We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed, But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right-hand and the left:

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Now ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

Having therefore, beloved, these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But God who comforteth them that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

And though I wrote to you, it was not for his sake who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had suffered it, but for the sake of manifesting to you in the sight of God our diligent care over you.

Moreover, brethren, we declare to you the grace of God, bestowed on the churches in Macedonia,

And this they did, not as we hoped; but first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:

But thanks be to God, who put the same diligent care for you in the heart of Titus.

Let every man do as he chuseth in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a chearful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that having always all sufficiency in all things, ye may abound to every good work:

Being inriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which worketh by us thanksgiving to God.