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but when this corruptible shall be invested with incorruptibility, and this mortal with immortality, then shall be fulfilled that passage of scripture, " death is swallowed up for ever."

Now as to the collection for the converts at Jerusalem, do as I have directed for the churches of Galatia.

every sabbath-day let every one of you set apart something of what he has happily gain'd, for the common treasury, that there may be no collection when I come.

I shall come to you, by the way of Macedonia: (for I

for I do not design to see you in my passage thither, yet I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permit.

for I have a very fair and promising opportunity given me of propagating the gospel, tho' there are many opposers.

If Timothy visit you, take care he may be perfectly safe: for he labours in the cause of christianity, as well as I.

let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him safe, that he may come to me: for I and the brethren expect him.

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus are come: for what was wanting on your side, they have supplied.

for they have quieted my mind as well as yours: therefore to such have a regard.

for as I have greatly suffered for Christ, so I have been greatly comforted thro' Christ.

but whether I am afflicted, it is for your consolation and relief, which is effected by your perseverance, patiently enduring the same sufferings which I also undergo: or whether I am comforted, it is for your consolation and relief.

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life:

nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead.

and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,

being assisted by your prayers for me, so that thanks may be returned by many, for the gracious deliverance procur'd me by their prayers.

for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.

for what I, and Timothy, and Silvanus preached concerning Jesus Christ, the son of God, is not inconsistent, but invariably the same.

for all the promises of God do center in him, and are verifyed by him to the glory of God by our preaching.

not that I would arbitrarily prescribe what you should believe, but rather encourage you to go on: for 'tis by faith you have stood.