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(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, [a glory] which is annulled;

and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth [for them].

so that death works in us, but life in you.

So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.

So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

So then, if also I wrote to you, [it was] not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been [the] truth;

So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;

But now also complete the doing of it; so that as [there was] the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.

but [on the principle] of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.

and not only [so], but [is] also chosen by the assemblies as our fellow-traveller with this grace, ministered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and [a witness of] our readiness;

Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

But be it so. *I* did not burden you, but being crafty I took you by guile.

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.

Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to be made perfect in flesh?