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For we preach not ourselves, but the Meshiha, Jeshu our Lord; but ourselves that we are your servants for the sake of Jeshu.

For Aloha, who said, Let light arise from darkness, hath arisen in our hearts; that we should be illuminated by the knowledge of the glory of Aloha in the face of Jeshu Meshiha.

For if we, the living, unto death are delivered on account of Jeshu, so also will the life of Jeshu be revealed in this our body of death.

For every thing is for your sake, that grace, abounding by many, may multiply praise to the glory of Aloha.

For this cause we have not weariness; for if our outward man is wasted, yet the interior man is renovated day by day.

For the affliction of this time, while small and light, a glory without end for ever and ever prepareth for us.

While we look not on these which are seen, but at those which are unseen. For the seen are of time, but the unseen are of eternity.

FOR we know that if our earthly house of this body were dissolved, we have nevertheless a building that is by Aloha; a house which is not made with hands, in the heaven, eternal.

For concerning this also we groan, and long to put on our house which is from heaven,

For now while we are in this house, we groan from the weight of it: yet are we not willing to cast it off, but to be clothed upon of it, that its mortality might be swallowed up in life.

And he who prepareth us for this is Aloha, who hath given to us the earnest-pledge of his Spirit.

For therefore do we know and are persuaded, that so long as we remain in the body we are in pilgrimage from our Lord.

For by faith we walk, and not by sight.

For we are all to stand before the tribunal of the Meshiha, that every man may be recompensed in his body (for) that which is done in it, whether of good or of evil.

12 For we commend [fn] not ourselves again to you, but we give you cause to be boastful of us to them who in appearance boast, but not in heart.

13 For if we be beside ourselves, (it is) unto Aloha; and if we be right, [fn] (it is) unto you.

For the love of the Meshiha constraineth us, because we judge this, That if one for every man hath died, then (was) every man dead.

And for every man he died, that they who live should not live to themselves, but to him who on their behalf died and arose.

For Aloha is in the Meshiha, who hath reconciled the world with his greatness; and he hath not reckoned unto them their sins, and hath put in us the word of reconciliation.

20 WE are ambassadors then for the Meshiha, and as if Aloha himself besought you by us: instead of the Meshiha, [fn] therefore, we beseech, Be you reconciled unto Aloha.