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For if we are extravagant, it is for God: and if we are discreet, it is for you.

and all things are made new, by God; who hath reconciled us to himself by the Messiah, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

For God was in the Messiah, who hath reconciled the world with his majesty, and did not reckon to them their sins; and who hath placed in us the word of reconciliation.

20 We are therefore ambassadors for the Messiah, and it is as if God was beseeching you by us. In behalf of the Messiah, therefore, we beseech [fn] , be ye reconciled to God.

For, on your account, he hath made him who knew no sin to be sin, that we might by him become the righteousness of God.

And as aiders we entreat of you, that the grace of God which ye have received, may not be ineffectual in you.

But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses,

by the speaking of truth, by the energy of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left;

or what agreement hath the temple of God with that of demons? For ye are the temple of the living God; as it is said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Seeing, therefore, we have these promises, my beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit; and let us work righteousness, in the fear of God.

But God who comforteth the depressed, comforted us by the arrival of Titus.

For, sorrowing on account of God, worketh a conversion of the soul which is not reversed, and a turning unto life: but the sorrowing of the world worketh death.

11 For behold this same thing, that ye were distressed on account of God, what solicitude it wrought in you, and apologizing and indignation, and fear, and love, and zeal, and revenge? And in all things ye have shown, that ye are [fn] pure in that matter.

12 And it will be [fn] that I wrote to you, not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who received the wrong, [fn] but that your solicitude in respect to us might be known before God.

And, my brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which was conferred on the churches of the Macedonians;

5 And not [fn] as we had expected, but they first gave themselves unto the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus this solicitude for you.

inasmuch as he likewise had been expressly chosen by the churches, to accompany me with this beneficence which is ministered by us to the glory of God and to our cordiality.

For we are attentive to things commendable, not only before God, but also before men.

For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work.