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and if it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.

But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia; for I am going through Macedonia,

For I do not want to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he has no reason to be afraid while among you, for he is doing the Lord's work, as I also am.

So do not look down on him, anyone. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are partners in our sufferings, so also you are in our comfort.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction which occurred in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

if you also join in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons in our behalf for the favor granted to us through the prayers of many.

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but has been yes in Him.

For as many as the promises of God are, in Him they are yes; therefore through Him also is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

Not that we domineer over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

But I decided this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again.

For if I cause you sorrow, who then will be the one making me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.