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lest Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices.

For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a sweet odor, in them that live and in them that perish:

For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God.

For ye know that ye are an epistle of the Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on the tablets of the heart of flesh.

who hath fitted us to be ministers of the new Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

For if there was glory in the ministration of condemnation, how much more shall the ministration of justification excel in glory?

For that which was glorious, was as if not glorious, in comparison with this which excelleth in glory.

For if that which is abolished was glorious, much more must that which abideth be glorious.

14 But they were blinded in their understanding; for until this day, when the old Testament is read, the same vail resteth upon them; nor is it manifest [fn] , that it is abolished by the Messiah.

For it is not ourselves that we preach, but the Messiah, Jesus our Lord; and, as to ourselves, that we are your servants for Jesus' sake.

For we bear in our body, at all times, the dying of Jesus; that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

For if we are delivered over alive unto death, for Jesus' sake, even so also will the life of Jesus be manifested in this our mortal body.

For all things are for your sakes, that while grace aboundeth by means of many, thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.

16 For this cause we faint not; for though our outward man perish, yet the inner [fn] is renovated day by day.

For the affliction of the present time, though very small and light, prepareth for us great glory, without end, for ever and ever;

while we look not at these seen things, but at those not seen; for these seen things are temporary, but those not seen are eternal.

For we know that, if our house on earth-this of the body, were dissolved, yet we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

For while we are here in this house, we groan under its burden; yet ye desire, not to throw it off; but to be clothed over it, so that its mortality may be absorbed in life.

And he that prepareth us for this thing, is God: who hath given us the earnest of his Spirit.

(for we walk by faith, and not by sight;)