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So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:

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

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

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.