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

Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness:

Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I 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 myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.