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Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void:

So then death worketh in us: but life in you.

Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning, your zeal for me: so that I rejoiced the more.

And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.

Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he would finish among you this same grace.

That as in all things you abound in faith and word and knowledge and all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us: so in this grace also you may abound.

Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.

See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any man trust to himself, that he is Christ’s let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ’s, so are we also.

But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.

They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I.

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and so escaped his hands.

But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.

As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.

And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?