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9 and because of these we had concluded (for) death; [fn] that we should not have hope in ourselves, but in Aloha, who raiseth the dead:

through the help of your prayers for us; that his gift towards us may be a benefit effected for many, and many may praise him on our behalf.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of Aloha, we are conversant in the world; and not with the wisdom of the flesh, and especially with you yourselves.

For we write no other (things) to you than those which you know and acknowledge, and which I am confident you will acknowledge unto the end:

For the Son of Aloha, Jeshu Meshiha, who by us hath been preached unto you, by me and by Sylvanas and by Timotheos, was not Yes and No, but it was Yes in him.

For all the promises of Aloha in him, in the Meshiha, are Yes; for which by him we give Amen to the glory of Aloha.

Not because we are lords of your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

For if I grieve you, who shall refresh me, but he whom I had grieved?

But sufficient for him was this chastisement, which was from many.

10 But to whom you forgive, I also. For I, too, what I have forgiven, have on your account forgiven in the presence [fn] of the Meshiha:

lest Satana get the advantage of you; for we know his devices.

For we are a fragrant perfume in the Meshiha unto Aloha in those who are saved, and in those who perish.

For we are not as the rest who commix the word of Aloha; but as in truth, and as from Aloha, before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak.

For you know that you are an epistle of the Meshiha, who hath been ministered by us; written, not with ink but by the Spirit of Aloha the Living; not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.

For we are not sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our power is from Aloha,

who hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive.

For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more doth not the ministry of justification excel in glory ?

For that which was glorified had no glory, in comparison of this excelling glory.

For if that which was abolished was with glory, how much more shall that which endureth be with glory?

But they are blinded in their minds unto this day. For when the old covenant is read, that very veil standeth upon them, nor is it apparent (to them) that in the Meshiha it hath been abolished.