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because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.

Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance; for you felt a godly grief, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.

In this we find comfort. In addition to our own consolation, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his mind has been set at rest by all of you.

I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you.

And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found eager in many matters, but who is now more eager than ever because of his great confidence in you.

while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you.

Did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed God's good news to you free of charge?

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches.

Here I am, ready to come to you this third time. And I will not be a burden, because I do not want what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.

And they glorified God because of me.

But because of false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned;

yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.

And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you;

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.