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so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam [is] for a life-giving spirit,

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

And concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we despaired even of life;

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

so that, on the contrary, [it is] rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

so that if any one [is] in Christ -- [he is] a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

and now also finish doing [it], that even as [there is] the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,

and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;

The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we [are] Christ's;

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;