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so that in every thing, ye may be enriched unto all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God.

For the performance of this ministration, not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is also rich in many thanksgivings to God.

For on account of the test of this ministration, we glorify God, that ye do subject yourselves to the profession of the gospel of the Messiah, and that in your liberality, ye communicate with them and with all men:

and they put up prayer for you, with much love, because of the abundance of the grace of God that is upon you.

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

For the arms of our warfare are not those of the flesh, but those of the power of God; by which we subdue rebellious castles.

And we demolish imaginations, and every lofty thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and subjugate all reasonings to obedience to the Messiah.

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but within the measure of the limits which God hath imparted to us, that we should reach as far as you.

Did I indeed commit an offence, by humbling myself that ye might be exalted? and by proclaiming the gospel of God to you gratis?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knoweth.

God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, blessed for ever and ever, he knoweth that I lie not.

2 I knew a man in the Messiah fourteen years ago, (but whether in a body, or whether out of a body, I know not; God knoweth:) who was caught up to the third [fn] of heaven.

And I knew this same man; (but whether in a body, or out of a body, I know not; God knoweth;)

19 Do ye again suppose, that we would apologize to you? Before God, in the Messiah we speak: and all these things, my beloved, [fn] for the sake of your edification.

lest, when I come to you, my God should humble me; and I should mourn over many, who have sinned, and have not repented of the impurity, the whoredom, and the lasciviousness, which they have committed.

For, though he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth with the power of God. We also are weak with him; yet we are alive with him, by that power of God which is among you.

And I beseech God, that there may be no evil in you, so that the proof of us may appear: and yet, that ye may be doers of good things, though we be as reprobates.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice, and be perfected, and be comforted: and may harmony and quietness be among you; and the God of love and of peace will be with you.

The peace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

PAUL, a legate, not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus the Messiah, and God his Father, who raised him from the dead;