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Therefore, whether it were I or they, so we preach, aud so ye beleeued.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we haue testified of God, that he raised vp Christ: whom hee raised not vp, if so bee that the dead rise not.

For as in Adam all die, euen so in Christ shall all be made aliue.

So also is the resurrection of the dead, it is sowen in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

And so it is written: The first man Adam was made a liuing soule, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

So when this corruptible shall haue put on incorruption, & this mortall shall haue put on immortality, then shall be brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp in victorie.

Now concerning the collection for the Saints, as I haue giuen order to the Churches of Galatia, euen so doe ye.

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

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

For we would not, brethren, haue you ignorant of our trouble which came to vs in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, aboue strength, in so much that we dispaired euen of life.

Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer: in whom we trust that he will yet deliuer vs:

So that contrarywise, yee ought rather to forgiue him, and comfort him, lest perhaps, such a one should be swallowed vp with ouermuch sorrow.

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

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

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

And not by his comming onely, but by the consolation wherewith hee was comforted in you, when he told vs your earnest desire, your mourning, your feruent minde toward me, so that I reioyced the more.

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

In so much that wee desired Titus, that as he had begun, so hee would also finish in you, the same grace also.

Now therefore performe the doing of it, that as there was a readinesse to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you haue.

Euerie man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him giue; not grudgingly, or of necessitie: for God loueth a cheerefull giuer.