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(For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):

For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.

For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.

For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

See the size of the handwriting which I myself have made use of in writing to you.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.

Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me:

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.

And when this letter has been made public among you, let the same be done in the church of Laodicea; and see that you have the letter from Laodicea.