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by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and traveling around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

so that, coming to you with joy by the will of God, I may rest with you.

so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

so that all flesh may not boast before God.

so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

It is reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which does not even exist among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of his father.

And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, because it is weak, be strengthened so that he eats the food sacrificed to idols?

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil things, just as those also desired them,

Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

while you also join in helping on our behalf by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many.

But God is faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no."

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

But if the ministry of death in letters carved on stone came with glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was transitory,

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.