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Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.

And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you towards each other aboundeth.

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day.

And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.

But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.

Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof:

And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue: