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And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.