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Saying, Friends, I see that this journey will be one of great damage and loss, not only to the goods and the ship, but to ourselves.

But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,

For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--