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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2
+Corinthians, by R. F. Weymouth
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+Title: Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Corinthians
+       Third Edition 1913
+
+Author: R. F. Weymouth
+
+Posting Date: March 14, 2015 [EBook #8835]
+Release Date: September, 2005
+First Posted: August 25, 2003
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WEYMOUTH NEW TESTAMENT--2 CORINTHIANS ***
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+Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Corinthians
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+Third Edition 1913
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+R. F. Weymouth
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+Book 47 2 Corinthians
+
+001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--
+        and our brother Timothy:  To the Church of God in Corinth,
+        with all God's people throughout Greece.
+
+001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
+        and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+001:003 Heartfelt thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--
+        the Father who is full of compassion and the God who
+        gives all comfort.
+
+001:004 He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able
+        to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means
+        of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
+
+001:005 For just as we have more than our share of suffering for
+        the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our
+        share of comfort.
+
+001:006 But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is
+        for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand,
+        we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is
+        produced within you through your patient fortitude under
+        the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring.
+
+001:007 And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are
+        partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners
+        in the comfort.
+
+001:008 For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia,
+        we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly
+        weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced
+        all hope even of life.
+
+001:009 Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within
+        our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose,
+        not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life.
+
+001:010 He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will
+        do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will
+        also rescue us in all the future,
+
+001:011 while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us,
+        so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf
+        for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many.
+
+001:012 For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own
+        conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God,
+        and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious
+        help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world,
+        and above all in our relations with you.
+
+001:013 For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have
+        written before, or from what indeed you already recognize
+        as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end;
+
+001:014 just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason
+        for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of
+        Jesus our Lord.
+
+001:015 It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended
+        to visit you before going elsewhere--so that you might receive
+        a twofold proof of God's favour--
+
+001:016 and to pass by way of Corinth into Macedonia.  Then my plan
+        was to return from Macedonia to you, and be helped forward
+        by you to Judaea.
+
+001:017 Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this?
+        Or the purposes which I form--do I form them on worldly principles,
+        now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"?
+
+001:018 As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes"
+        and now "No."
+
+001:019 For Jesus Christ the Son of God--He who was proclaimed
+        among you by us, that is by Silas and Timothy and myself--
+        did not show Himself a waverer between "Yes" and "No."
+        But it was and always is "Yes" with Him.
+
+001:020 For all the promises of God, whatever their number, have their
+        confirmation in Him; and for this reason through Him also our "Amen"
+        acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God
+        through our faith.
+
+001:021 But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union
+        with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God,
+
+001:022 and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit
+        into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.
+
+001:023 But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God
+        as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up
+        my visit to Corinth.
+
+001:024 Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith--
+        we do, however, desire to help your joy--for in the matter
+        of your faith you are standing firm.
+
+002:001 But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have
+        a painful visit the next time I come to see you.
+
+002:002 For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden
+        my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?
+
+002:003 And I write this to you in order that when I come I may
+        not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy,
+        confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy
+        of you all.
+
+002:004 For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering
+        and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you,
+        but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with
+        love for you.
+
+002:005 Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much
+        to me, as in some degree--for I have no wish to exaggerate--
+        to all of you.
+
+002:006 In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted
+        by the majority of you is enough.
+
+002:007 So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him
+        rather and comfort him, for fear he should perhaps be driven
+        to despair by his excess of grief.
+
+002:008 I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
+
+002:009 For in writing to you I have also this object in view--
+        to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be
+        obedient in every respect.
+
+002:010 When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it;
+        for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything,
+        has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
+
+002:011 for fear Satan should gain an advantage over us.
+        For we are not ignorant of his devices.
+
+002:012 Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News
+        about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door
+        stood open before me,
+
+002:013 yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our
+        brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.
+
+002:014 But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our
+        triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place
+        that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.
+
+002:015 For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom
+        He is saving and in those who are perishing;
+
+002:016 to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death,
+        and to the others an odor of life predictive of life.
+        And for such service as this who is competent?
+
+002:017 We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent
+        hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives,
+        as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion
+        with Christ, so we speak.
+
+003:001 Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more?
+        Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you
+        or from you?
+
+003:002 Our letter of recommendation is yourselves--a letter written
+        on our hearts and everywhere known and read.
+
+003:003 For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted
+        to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit
+        of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone,
+        but on human hearts as tablets.
+
+003:004 Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in the
+        presence of God;
+
+003:005 not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything
+        by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God.
+
+003:006 It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion
+        with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit;
+        for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life.
+
+003:007 If, however, the service that proclaims death--its code
+        being engraved in writing upon stones--came with glory,
+        so that the children of Israel could not look steadily
+        on the face of Moses because of the brightness of his face--
+        a vanishing brightness;
+
+003:008 will not the service of the Spirit be far more glorious?
+
+003:009 For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more
+        glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.
+
+003:010 For, in fact, that which was once resplendent in glory has no
+        glory at all in this respect, that it pales before the glory
+        which surpasses it.
+
+003:011 For if that which was to be abolished came with glory,
+        much more is that which is permanent arrayed in glory.
+
+003:012 Therefore, cherishing a hope like this, we speak without reserve,
+        and we do not imitate Moses,
+
+003:013 who used to throw a veil over his face to hide from the gaze
+        of the children of Israel the passing away of what
+        was but transitory.
+
+003:014 Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during
+        the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same
+        veil remains unlifted, because it is only in Christ that it
+        is to be abolished.
+
+003:015 Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies
+        upon their hearts.
+
+003:016 But whenever the heart of the nation shall have returned
+        to the Lord, the veil will be withdrawn.
+
+003:017 Now by "the Lord" is meant the Spirit; and where the Spirit
+        of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed.
+
+003:018 And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright
+        mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
+        the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another,
+        even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.
+
+004:001 Therefore, being engaged in this service and being mindful
+        of the mercy which has been shown us, we are not cowards.
+
+004:002 Nay, we have renounced the secrecy which marks a feeling of shame.
+        We practice no cunning tricks, nor do we adulterate God's Message.
+        But by a full clear statement of the truth we strive to commend
+        ourselves in the presence of God to every human conscience.
+
+004:003 If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled,
+        the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the
+        way to perdition,
+
+004:004 in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving
+        minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News
+        of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.
+
+004:005 (For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus
+        as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)
+
+004:006 For God who said, "Out of darkness let light shine," is He who
+        has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge
+        of God's glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ.
+
+004:007 But we have this treasure in a fragile vase of clay, in order
+        that the surpassing greatness of the power may be seen
+        to belong to God, and not to originate in us.
+
+004:008 We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress;
+        perplexed, yet never utterly baffled;
+
+004:009 pursued, yet never left unsuccoured; struck to the ground,
+        yet never slain;
+
+004:010 always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies
+        the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may
+        also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.
+
+004:011 For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering
+        ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus, so that in this mortal
+        nature of ours it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.
+
+004:012 Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full
+        enjoyment of Life.
+
+004:013 But possessing the same Spirit of faith as he who wrote,
+        "I believed, and therefore I have spoken," we also believe,
+        and therefore we speak.
+
+004:014 For we know that He who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead
+        will raise us also to be with Jesus, and will cause both us
+        and you to stand in His own presence.
+
+004:015 For everything is for your sakes, in order that grace,
+        being more richly bestowed because of the thanksgivings of the
+        increased number, may more and more promote the glory of God.
+
+004:016 Therefore we are not cowards.  Nay, even though our outward
+        man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed
+        day by day.
+
+004:017 For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is
+        achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating,
+        and eternal weight of glory;
+
+004:018 while we look not at things seen, but things unseen;
+        for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal.
+
+005:001 For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house,
+        is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided,
+        a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
+
+005:002 For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it
+        our dwelling which comes from Heaven--
+
+005:003 if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found
+        to be unclothed.
+
+005:004 Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens,
+        for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are
+        now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may
+        be absorbed in Life.
+
+005:005 And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has
+        given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.
+
+005:006 We have therefore a cheerful confidence.  We know that while we
+        are at home in the body we are banished from the Lord;
+
+005:007 for we are living a life of faith, and not one of sight.
+
+005:008 So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with
+        greater delight being banished from the body and going home
+        to the Lord.
+
+005:009 And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at
+        home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.
+
+005:010 For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat
+        in our true characters, in order that each may then receive
+        an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what
+        he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.
+
+005:011 Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared,
+        we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes
+        what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts,
+        recognize them too.
+
+005:012 We are not again commending ourselves to your favour,
+        but are furnishing you with a ground of boasting on our behalf,
+        so that you may have a reply ready for those with whom
+        superficial appearances are everything and sincerity of heart
+        counts for nothing.
+
+005:013 For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory;
+        or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be
+        of service to you.
+
+005:014 For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which
+        we have arrived being this--that One having died for all,
+        His death was their death,
+
+005:015 and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer
+        live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.
+
+005:016 Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man.
+        Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.
+
+005:017 So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature:
+        the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things
+        has come into existence.
+
+005:018 And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself
+        through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the
+        ministry of reconciliation.
+
+005:019 We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world
+        to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account,
+        and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.
+
+005:020 On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were,
+        making entreaty through our lips:  we, on Christ's behalf,
+        beseech men to be reconciled to God.
+
+005:021 He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us,
+        in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.
+
+006:001 And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be
+        found to have received His grace to no purpose.
+
+006:002 For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you,
+        and on a day of salvation I have succoured you."
+        Now is the time of loving welcome!  Now is the day of salvation!
+
+006:003 We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything,
+        lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.
+
+006:004 On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--
+        by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;
+
+006:005 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil,
+        by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;
+
+006:006 by purity of life, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness,
+        by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love;
+
+006:007 by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God;
+        by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;
+
+006:008 through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise.
+        We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;
+
+006:009 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death,
+        and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline,
+        and yet we are not deprived of life;
+
+006:010 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow
+        wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely
+        possess all things.
+
+006:011 O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you:
+        our heart is expanded.
+
+006:012 There is no narrowness in our love to you:  the narrowness
+        is in your own feelings.
+
+006:013 And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your
+        hearts expand also.
+
+006:014 Do not come into close association with unbelievers,
+        like oxen yoked with asses.  For what is there in common
+        between righteousness and lawlessness?  Or what partnership
+        has light with darkness?
+
+006:015 Where can harmony between Christ and Belial be found?
+        Or what participation has a believer with an unbeliever?
+
+006:016 And what compact has the Temple of God with idols?
+        For *we* are the Temple of the ever-living God; as God has said,
+        "I will dwell among them, and walk about among them;
+        and will be their God, and it is they who shall be My people."
+
+006:017 Therefore, "`Come out from among them and separate yourselves,'
+        says the Lord, `and touch nothing impure; and I will receive you,
+        and will be a Father to you,
+
+006:018 and you shall be My sons and daughters,' says the Lord
+        the Ruler of all."
+
+007:001 Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us
+        purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit,
+        and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.
+
+007:002 Make room for us in your hearts.  There is not one of you
+        whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm,
+        not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.
+
+007:003 I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said,
+        you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you
+        or live with you.
+
+007:004 I have great confidence in you:  very loudly do I boast of you.
+        I am filled with comfort:  my heart overflows with joy amid
+        all our affliction.
+
+007:005 For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief
+        such as human nature craves.  We were greatly harassed;
+        there were conflicts without and fears within.
+
+007:006 But He who comforts the depressed--even God--comforted us
+        by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,
+
+007:007 but also by the fact that he had felt comforted on your account,
+        and by the report which he brought of your eager affection,
+        of your grief, and of your jealousy on my behalf, so that I
+        rejoiced more than ever.
+
+007:008 For if I gave you pain by that letter, I do not regret it,
+        though I did regret it then.  I see that that letter,
+        even though for a time it gave you pain, had a salutary effect.
+
+007:009 Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief
+        led to repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow,
+        which prevented you from receiving injury from us in any respect.
+
+007:010 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation,
+        a repentance not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world
+        finally produces death.
+
+007:011 For mark the effects of this very thing--your having sorrowed
+        with a godly sorrow--what earnestness it has called forth in you,
+        what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm,
+        what longing affection, what jealousy, what meting out of justice!
+        You have completely wiped away reproach from yourselves
+        in the matter.
+
+007:012 Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender,
+        nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong,
+        but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our
+        behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.
+
+007:013 For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this
+        our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy
+        at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest
+        by you all.
+
+007:014 For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no
+        reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken
+        the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you
+        has turned out to be the truth.
+
+007:015 And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn
+        out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which
+        all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety
+        with which you welcomed him.
+
+007:016 I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
+
+008:001 But we desire to let you know, brethren, of the grace of God
+        which has been bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia;
+
+008:002 how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless
+        joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase
+        their generous liberality.
+
+008:003 For I can testify that to the utmost of their power,
+        and even beyond their power, they have of their own free
+        will given help.
+
+008:004 With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of
+        being allowed to share in the service now being rendered
+        to God's people.
+
+008:005 They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in
+        obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord
+        and to us.
+
+008:006 This led us to urge Titus that, as he had previously been
+        the one who commenced the work, so he should now go and complete
+        among you this act of beneficence also.
+
+008:007 Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech,
+        knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you,
+        implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving
+        also flourishes in you.
+
+008:008 I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard
+        of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.
+
+008:009 For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ--
+        how for your sakes He became poor, though He was rich,
+        in order that you through His poverty might grow rich.
+
+008:010 But in this matter I give you an opinion; for my doing this helps
+        forward your own intentions, seeing that not only have you
+        begun operations, but a year ago you already had the desire
+        to do so.
+
+008:011 And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there
+        was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be
+        the accomplishment in proportion to your means.
+
+008:012 For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable
+        according to whatever a man has, and not according to what
+        he has not.
+
+008:013 I do not urge you to give in order that others may have relief
+        while you are unduly pressed,
+
+008:014 but that, by equalization of burdens, your superfluity
+        having in the present emergency supplied their deficiency,
+        their superfluity may in turn be a supply for your deficiency
+        later on, so that there may be equalization of burdens.
+
+008:015 Even as it is written, "He who gathered much had not too much,
+        and he who gathered little had not too little."
+
+008:016 But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus
+        with the same deep interest in you;
+
+008:017 for Titus welcomed our request, and, being thoroughly in earnest,
+        comes to you of his own free will.
+
+008:018 And we send with him the brother whose praises for his
+        earnestness in proclaiming the Good News are heard throughout
+        all the Churches.
+
+008:019 And more than that, he is the one who was chosen by the vote
+        of the Churches to travel with us, sharing our commission
+        in the administration of this generous gift to promote
+        the Lord's glory and gratify our own strong desire.
+
+008:020 For against one thing we are on our guard--I mean against blame
+        being thrown upon us in respect to these large and liberal
+        contributions which are under our charge.
+
+008:021 For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity,
+        but man's also.
+
+008:022 And we send with them our brother, of whose zeal we have had
+        frequent proof in many matters, and who is now more zealous
+        than ever through the strong confidence which he has in you.
+
+008:023 As for Titus, remember that he is a partner with me, and is
+        my comrade in my labours for you.  And as for our brethren,
+        remember that they are delegates from the Churches, and are
+        men in whom Christ is glorified.
+
+008:024 Exhibit therefore to the Churches a proof of your love,
+        and a justification of our boasting to these brethren about you.
+
+009:001 As to the services which are being rendered to God's people,
+        it is really unnecessary for me to write to you.
+
+009:002 For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I
+        habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out
+        to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready;
+        and the greater number of them have been spurred on
+        by your ardour.
+
+009:003 Still I send the brethren in order that in this matter our
+        boast about you may not turn out to have been an idle one;
+        so that, as I have said, you may be ready;
+
+009:004 for fear that, if any Macedonians come with me and find
+        you unprepared, we--not to say you yourselves--should be put
+        to the blush in respect to this confidence.
+
+009:005 I have thought it absolutely necessary therefore to request
+        these brethren to visit you before I myself come, and to make
+        sure beforehand that the gift of love which you have already
+        promised may be ready as a gift of love, and may not seem
+        to have been something which I have extorted from you.
+
+009:006 But do not forget that he who sows with a niggardly hand will
+        also reap a niggardly crop, and that he who sows bountifully
+        will also reap bountifully.
+
+009:007 Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind,
+        and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion.
+        "It is a cheerful giver that God loves."
+
+009:008 And God is able to bestow every blessing on you in abundance,
+        so that richly enjoying all sufficiency at all times,
+        you may have ample means for all good works.
+
+009:009 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given
+        to the poor, his almsgiving remains for ever."
+
+009:010 And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread
+        for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it,
+        and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.
+
+009:011 May you be abundantly enriched so as to show all liberality,
+        such as through our instrumentality brings thanksgiving to God.
+
+009:012 For the service rendered in this sacred gift not only helps
+        to relieve the wants of God's people, but it is also rich
+        in its results and awakens a chorus of thanksgiving to God.
+
+009:013 For, by the practical proof of it which you exhibit in
+        this service, you cause God to be extolled for your fidelity
+        to your professed adherence to the Good News of the Christ,
+        and for the liberality of your contributions for them and
+        for all who are in need,
+
+009:014 while they themselves also in supplications on your behalf
+        pour out their longing love towards you because of God's
+        surpassing grace which is resting upon you.
+
+009:015 Thanks be to God for His unspeakably precious gift!
+
+010:001 But as for me Paul, I entreat you by the gentleness and
+        self-forgetfulness of Christ--I who when among you have not
+        an imposing personal presence, but when absent am fearlessly
+        outspoken in dealing with you.
+
+010:002 I beseech you not to compel me when present to make a bold
+        display of the confidence with which I reckon I shall show
+        my `courage' against some who reckon that we are guided
+        by worldly principles.
+
+010:003 For, though we are still living in the world, it is no worldly
+        warfare that we are waging.
+
+010:004 The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons,
+        but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.
+
+010:005 For we overthrow arrogant `reckonings,' and every stronghold
+        that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God,
+        and we carry off every thought as if into slavery--
+        into subjection to Christ;
+
+010:006 while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act
+        of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully
+        shown your obedience.
+
+010:007 Is it outward appearances you look to?  If any man is confident
+        as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ,
+        let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs
+        to Christ, so also do we.
+
+010:008 If, however, I were to boast more loudly of our Apostolic authority,
+        which the Lord has given us that we may build you up,
+        not pull you down, I should have no reason to feel ashamed.
+
+010:009 Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.
+
+010:010 For they say "His letters are authoritative and forcible,
+        but his personal presence is unimpressive, and as for eloquence,
+        he has none."
+
+010:011 Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever
+        we are in word by our letters when absent, the same are we
+        also in act when present.
+
+010:012 For we have not the `courage' to rank ourselves among,
+        or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished
+        by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise,
+        measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing
+        themselves with one another.
+
+010:013 We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting,
+        but will keep within the limits of the sphere which God has
+        assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you.
+
+010:014 For there is no undue stretch of authority on our part,
+        as though it did not extend to you.  We pressed on even
+        to Corinth, and were the first to proclaim to you the Good News
+        of the Christ.
+
+010:015 We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for
+        other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that,
+        as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--
+        still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger
+        field of labour,
+
+010:016 and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you,
+        not boasting in another man's sphere about work already
+        done by him.
+
+010:017 But "whoever boasts, let his boast be in the Lord."
+
+010:018 For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved,
+        but he whom the Lord commends.
+
+011:001 I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting
+        on my part.  Nay, do bear with me.
+
+011:002 I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy.  For I have
+        betrothed you to Christ to present you to Him like a faithful
+        bride to her one husband.
+
+011:003 But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve,
+        so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness
+        and their fidelity to Christ.
+
+011:004 If indeed some visitor is proclaiming among you another Jesus
+        whom we did not proclaim, or if you are receiving a Spirit
+        different from the One you have already received or a Good News
+        different from that which you have already welcomed,
+        your toleration is admirable!
+
+011:005 Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those
+        superlatively great Apostles.
+
+011:006 And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge
+        I am not deficient.  Nay, we have in every way made that fully
+        evident to you.
+
+011:007 Is it a sin that I abased myself in order for you to be exalted,
+        in that I proclaimed God's Good News to you without fee or reward?
+
+011:008 Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order
+        to do you service.
+
+011:009 And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was
+        no one to whom I became a burden--for the brethren
+        when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants--
+        and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you,
+        and will do so still.
+
+011:010 Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be
+        stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.
+
+011:011 And why?  Because I do not love you?  God knows that I do.
+
+011:012 But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order
+        to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire
+        an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being
+        on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.
+
+011:013 For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen,
+        assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
+
+011:014 And no wonder.  Satan, their master, can disguise himself
+        as an angel of light.
+
+011:015 It is therefore no great thing for his servants also
+        to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.
+        Their end will be in accordance with their actions.
+
+011:016 To return to what I was saying.  Let no one suppose that I
+        am foolish.  Or if you must, at any rate make allowance
+        for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they,
+        may boast a little.
+
+011:017 What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command,
+        but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.
+
+011:018 Since many boast for merely human reasons, I too will boast.
+
+011:019 Wise as you yourselves are, you find pleasure in tolerating fools.
+
+011:020 For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense,
+        makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes
+        you on the face.
+
+011:021 I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I
+        were admitting our own feebleness.  Yet for whatever
+        reason any one is `courageous'--I speak in mere folly--
+        I also am courageous.
+
+011:022 Are they Hebrews?  So am I. Are they Israelites?  So am I. Are
+        they descendants of Abraham?  So am I.
+
+011:023 Are they servants of Christ?  (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)
+        Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they
+        by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments,
+        by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life
+        many a time.
+
+011:024 From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.
+
+011:025 Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have
+        been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full
+        four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
+
+011:026 I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers
+        in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my
+        own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city,
+        dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies
+        in our midst;
+
+011:027 with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night,
+        in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold,
+        and with insufficient clothing.
+
+011:028 And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that
+        which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.
+
+011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak?  Who is led astray into sin,
+        and I am not aflame with indignation?
+
+011:030 If boast I must, it shall be of things which display my weakness.
+
+011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--He who is blessed
+        throughout the Ages--knows that I am speaking the truth.
+
+011:032 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas kept guards at
+        the gates of the city in order to apprehend me,
+
+011:033 but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket,
+        and so escaped his hands.
+
+012:001 I am compelled to boast.  It is not a profitable employment,
+        but I will proceed to visions and revelations granted me
+        by the Lord.
+
+012:002 I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago--whether in
+        the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know;
+        God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)
+        even to the highest Heaven.
+
+012:003 And I know that this man--whether in the body or apart from
+        the body I do not know;
+
+012:004 God knows--was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable
+        things which no human being is permitted to repeat.
+
+012:005 Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast,
+        except in my weaknesses.
+
+012:006 If however I should choose to boast, I should not be a fool
+        for so doing, for I should be speaking the truth.
+        But I forbear, lest any one should be led to estimate me
+        more highly than what his own eyes attest, or more highly
+        than what he hears from my lips.
+
+012:007 And judging by the stupendous grandeur of the revelations--
+        therefore lest I should be over-elated there has been sent to me,
+        like the agony of impalement, Satan's angel dealing blow
+        after blow, lest I should be over-elated.
+
+012:008 As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid
+        me of him;
+
+012:009 but His reply has been, "My grace suffices for you,
+        for power matures in weakness."  Most gladly therefore
+        will I boast of my infirmities rather than complain of them--
+        in order that Christ's power may overshadow me.
+
+012:010 In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults,
+        in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties--
+        for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
+
+012:011 It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled
+        me to do so.  Why, you ought to have been my vindicators;
+        for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively
+        great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.
+
+012:012 The signs that characterize the true Apostle have been done
+        among you, accompanied by unwearied fortitude, and by tokens
+        and marvels and displays of power.
+
+012:013 In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than
+        other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead
+        weight upon you?  Forgive the injustice I thus did you!
+
+012:014 See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I
+        will not be a dead weight to you.  I desire not your money,
+        but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents,
+        but parents for their children.
+
+012:015 And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be
+        utterly spent for your salvation.
+
+012:016 If I love you so intensely, am I the less to be loved?
+        Be that as it may:  I was not a burden to you.
+        But being by no means scrupulous, I entrapped you, they say!
+
+012:017 Have I gained any selfish advantage over you through any one
+        of the messengers I have sent to you?
+
+012:018 I begged Titus to visit you, and sent our other brother
+        with him.  Did Titus gain any selfish advantage over you?
+        Were not he and I guided by one and the same Spirit, and did
+        we not walk in the same steps?
+
+012:019 You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our
+        defense at your bar.  In reality it is as in God's presence
+        and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends,
+        it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.
+
+012:020 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may not find you to be
+        what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire;
+        that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling,
+        party spirit, ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest;
+
+012:021 and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God
+        in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose
+        hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not
+        repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality,
+        of which they have been guilty.
+
+013:001 This intended visit of mine is my third visit to you.
+        "On the evidence of two or three witnesses every charge
+        shall be sustained."
+
+013:002 Those who cling to their old sins, and indeed all of you,
+        I have forewarned and still forewarn (as I did on my second
+        visit when present, so I do now, though absent) that, when I
+        come again, I shall not spare you;
+
+013:003 since you want a practical proof of the fact that Christ
+        speaks by my lips--He who is not feeble towards you,
+        but powerful among you.
+
+013:004 For though it is true that He was crucified through weakness,
+        yet He now lives through the power of God.  We also are weak,
+        sharing His weakness, but with Him we shall be full of life
+        to deal with you through the power of God.
+
+013:005 Test yourselves to discover whether you are true believers:
+        put your own selves under examination.  Or do you not know
+        that Jesus Christ is within you, unless you are insincere?
+
+013:006 But I trust that you will recognize that we are not insincere.
+
+013:007 And our prayer to God is that you may do nothing wrong;
+        not in order that our sincerity may be demonstrated,
+        but that you may do what is right, even though our sincerity
+        may seem to be doubtful.
+
+013:008 For we have no power against the truth, but only for the furtherance
+        of the truth;
+
+013:009 and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong.
+        This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.
+
+013:010 For this reason I write thus while absent, that when present I
+        may not have to act severely in the exercise of the authority
+        which the Lord has given me for building up, and not
+        for pulling down.
+
+013:011 Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character,
+        take courage, be of one mind, live in peace.  And then God
+        who gives love and peace will be with you.
+
+013:012 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
+
+013:013 All God's people here send greetings to you.
+
+013:014 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
+        and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Book 47 2 Corinthians
+001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--
+        and our brother Timothy:  To the Church of God in Corinth,
+        with all God's people throughout Greece.
+001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father
+        and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+001:003 Heartfelt thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--
+        the Father who is full of compassion and the God who
+        gives all comfort.
+001:004 He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able
+        to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means
+        of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
+001:005 For just as we have more than our share of suffering for
+        the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our
+        share of comfort.
+001:006 But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is
+        for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand,
+        we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is
+        produced within you through your patient fortitude under
+        the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring.
+001:007 And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are
+        partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners
+        in the comfort.
+001:008 For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia,
+        we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly
+        weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced
+        all hope even of life.
+001:009 Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within
+        our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose,
+        not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life.
+001:010 He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will
+        do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will
+        also rescue us in all the future,
+001:011 while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us,
+        so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf
+        for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many.
+001:012 For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own
+        conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God,
+        and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious
+        help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world,
+        and above all in our relations with you.
+001:013 For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have
+        written before, or from what indeed you already recognize
+        as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end;
+001:014 just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason
+        for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of
+        Jesus our Lord.
+001:015 It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended
+        to visit you before going elsewhere--so that you might receive
+        a twofold proof of God's favour--
+001:016 and to pass by way of Corinth into Macedonia.  Then my plan
+        was to return from Macedonia to you, and be helped forward
+        by you to Judaea.
+001:017 Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this?
+        Or the purposes which I form--do I form them on worldly principles,
+        now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"?
+001:018 As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes"
+        and now "No."
+001:019 For Jesus Christ the Son of God--He who was proclaimed
+        among you by us, that is by Silas and Timothy and myself--
+        did not show Himself a waverer between "Yes" and "No."
+        But it was and always is "Yes" with Him.
+001:020 For all the promises of God, whatever their number, have their
+        confirmation in Him; and for this reason through Him also our "Amen"
+        acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God
+        through our faith.
+001:021 But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union
+        with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God,
+001:022 and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit
+        into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.
+001:023 But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God
+        as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up
+        my visit to Corinth.
+001:024 Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith--
+        we do, however, desire to help your joy--for in the matter
+        of your faith you are standing firm.
+002:001 But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have
+        a painful visit the next time I come to see you.
+002:002 For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden
+        my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?
+002:003 And I write this to you in order that when I come I may
+        not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy,
+        confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy
+        of you all.
+002:004 For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering
+        and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you,
+        but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with
+        love for you.
+002:005 Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much
+        to me, as in some degree--for I have no wish to exaggerate--
+        to all of you.
+002:006 In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted
+        by the majority of you is enough.
+002:007 So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him
+        rather and comfort him, for fear he should perhaps be driven
+        to despair by his excess of grief.
+002:008 I beg you therefore fully to reinstate him in your love.
+002:009 For in writing to you I have also this object in view--
+        to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be
+        obedient in every respect.
+002:010 When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it;
+        for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything,
+        has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
+002:011 for fear Satan should gain an advantage over us.
+        For we are not ignorant of his devices.
+002:012 Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News
+        about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door
+        stood open before me,
+002:013 yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our
+        brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.
+002:014 But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our
+        triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place
+        that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.
+002:015 For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom
+        He is saving and in those who are perishing;
+002:016 to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death,
+        and to the others an odor of life predictive of life.
+        And for such service as this who is competent?
+002:017 We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent
+        hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives,
+        as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion
+        with Christ, so we speak.
+003:001 Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more?
+        Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you
+        or from you?
+003:002 Our letter of recommendation is yourselves--a letter written
+        on our hearts and everywhere known and read.
+003:003 For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted
+        to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit
+        of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone,
+        but on human hearts as tablets.
+003:004 Such is the confidence which we have through Christ in the
+        presence of God;
+003:005 not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything
+        by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God.
+003:006 It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion
+        with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit;
+        for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life.
+003:007 If, however, the service that proclaims death--its code
+        being engraved in writing upon stones--came with glory,
+        so that the children of Israel could not look steadily
+        on the face of Moses because of the brightness of his face--
+        a vanishing brightness;
+003:008 will not the service of the Spirit be far more glorious?
+003:009 For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more
+        glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.
+003:010 For, in fact, that which was once resplendent in glory has no
+        glory at all in this respect, that it pales before the glory
+        which surpasses it.
+003:011 For if that which was to be abolished came with glory,
+        much more is that which is permanent arrayed in glory.
+003:012 Therefore, cherishing a hope like this, we speak without reserve,
+        and we do not imitate Moses,
+003:013 who used to throw a veil over his face to hide from the gaze
+        of the children of Israel the passing away of what
+        was but transitory.
+003:014 Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during
+        the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same
+        veil remains unlifted, because it is only in Christ that it
+        is to be abolished.
+003:015 Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies
+        upon their hearts.
+003:016 But whenever the heart of the nation shall have returned
+        to the Lord, the veil will be withdrawn.
+003:017 Now by "the Lord" is meant the Spirit; and where the Spirit
+        of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed.
+003:018 And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright
+        mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
+        the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another,
+        even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.
+004:001 Therefore, being engaged in this service and being mindful
+        of the mercy which has been shown us, we are not cowards.
+004:002 Nay, we have renounced the secrecy which marks a feeling of shame.
+        We practice no cunning tricks, nor do we adulterate God's Message.
+        But by a full clear statement of the truth we strive to commend
+        ourselves in the presence of God to every human conscience.
+004:003 If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled,
+        the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the
+        way to perdition,
+004:004 in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving
+        minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News
+        of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.
+004:005 (For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus
+        as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)
+004:006 For God who said, "Out of darkness let light shine," is He who
+        has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge
+        of God's glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ.
+004:007 But we have this treasure in a fragile vase of clay, in order
+        that the surpassing greatness of the power may be seen
+        to belong to God, and not to originate in us.
+004:008 We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress;
+        perplexed, yet never utterly baffled;
+004:009 pursued, yet never left unsuccoured; struck to the ground,
+        yet never slain;
+004:010 always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies
+        the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may
+        also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.
+004:011 For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering
+        ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus, so that in this mortal
+        nature of ours it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.
+004:012 Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full
+        enjoyment of Life.
+004:013 But possessing the same Spirit of faith as he who wrote,
+        "I believed, and therefore I have spoken," we also believe,
+        and therefore we speak.
+004:014 For we know that He who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead
+        will raise us also to be with Jesus, and will cause both us
+        and you to stand in His own presence.
+004:015 For everything is for your sakes, in order that grace,
+        being more richly bestowed because of the thanksgivings of the
+        increased number, may more and more promote the glory of God.
+004:016 Therefore we are not cowards.  Nay, even though our outward
+        man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed
+        day by day.
+004:017 For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is
+        achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating,
+        and eternal weight of glory;
+004:018 while we look not at things seen, but things unseen;
+        for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal.
+005:001 For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house,
+        is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided,
+        a house not built by human hands, but eternal.
+005:002 For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it
+        our dwelling which comes from Heaven--
+005:003 if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found
+        to be unclothed.
+005:004 Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens,
+        for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are
+        now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may
+        be absorbed in Life.
+005:005 And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has
+        given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.
+005:006 We have therefore a cheerful confidence.  We know that while we
+        are at home in the body we are banished from the Lord;
+005:007 for we are living a life of faith, and not one of sight.
+005:008 So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with
+        greater delight being banished from the body and going home
+        to the Lord.
+005:009 And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at
+        home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.
+005:010 For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat
+        in our true characters, in order that each may then receive
+        an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what
+        he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.
+005:011 Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared,
+        we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes
+        what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts,
+        recognize them too.
+005:012 We are not again commending ourselves to your favour,
+        but are furnishing you with a ground of boasting on our behalf,
+        so that you may have a reply ready for those with whom
+        superficial appearances are everything and sincerity of heart
+        counts for nothing.
+005:013 For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory;
+        or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be
+        of service to you.
+005:014 For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which
+        we have arrived being this--that One having died for all,
+        His death was their death,
+005:015 and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer
+        live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.
+005:016 Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man.
+        Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.
+005:017 So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature:
+        the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things
+        has come into existence.
+005:018 And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself
+        through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the
+        ministry of reconciliation.
+005:019 We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world
+        to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account,
+        and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.
+005:020 On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were,
+        making entreaty through our lips:  we, on Christ's behalf,
+        beseech men to be reconciled to God.
+005:021 He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us,
+        in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.
+006:001 And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be
+        found to have received His grace to no purpose.
+006:002 For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you,
+        and on a day of salvation I have succoured you."
+        Now is the time of loving welcome!  Now is the day of salvation!
+006:003 We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything,
+        lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.
+006:004 On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--
+        by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;
+006:005 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil,
+        by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;
+006:006 by purity of life, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness,
+        by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love;
+006:007 by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God;
+        by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;
+006:008 through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise.
+        We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;
+006:009 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death,
+        and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline,
+        and yet we are not deprived of life;
+006:010 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow
+        wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely
+        possess all things.
+006:011 O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you:
+        our heart is expanded.
+006:012 There is no narrowness in our love to you:  the narrowness
+        is in your own feelings.
+006:013 And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your
+        hearts expand also.
+006:014 Do not come into close association with unbelievers,
+        like oxen yoked with asses.  For what is there in common
+        between righteousness and lawlessness?  Or what partnership
+        has light with darkness?
+006:015 Where can harmony between Christ and Belial be found?
+        Or what participation has a believer with an unbeliever?
+006:016 And what compact has the Temple of God with idols?
+        For *we* are the Temple of the ever-living God; as God has said,
+        "I will dwell among them, and walk about among them;
+        and will be their God, and it is they who shall be My people."
+006:017 Therefore, "`Come out from among them and separate yourselves,'
+        says the Lord, `and touch nothing impure; and I will receive you,
+        and will be a Father to you,
+006:018 and you shall be My sons and daughters,' says the Lord
+        the Ruler of all."
+007:001 Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us
+        purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit,
+        and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.
+007:002 Make room for us in your hearts.  There is not one of you
+        whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm,
+        not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.
+007:003 I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said,
+        you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you
+        or live with you.
+007:004 I have great confidence in you:  very loudly do I boast of you.
+        I am filled with comfort:  my heart overflows with joy amid
+        all our affliction.
+007:005 For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief
+        such as human nature craves.  We were greatly harassed;
+        there were conflicts without and fears within.
+007:006 But He who comforts the depressed--even God--comforted us
+        by the coming of Titus, and not by his coming only,
+007:007 but also by the fact that he had felt comforted on your account,
+        and by the report which he brought of your eager affection,
+        of your grief, and of your jealousy on my behalf, so that I
+        rejoiced more than ever.
+007:008 For if I gave you pain by that letter, I do not regret it,
+        though I did regret it then.  I see that that letter,
+        even though for a time it gave you pain, had a salutary effect.
+007:009 Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief
+        led to repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow,
+        which prevented you from receiving injury from us in any respect.
+007:010 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation,
+        a repentance not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world
+        finally produces death.
+007:011 For mark the effects of this very thing--your having sorrowed
+        with a godly sorrow--what earnestness it has called forth in you,
+        what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm,
+        what longing affection, what jealousy, what meting out of justice!
+        You have completely wiped away reproach from yourselves
+        in the matter.
+007:012 Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender,
+        nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong,
+        but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our
+        behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.
+007:013 For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this
+        our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy
+        at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest
+        by you all.
+007:014 For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no
+        reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken
+        the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you
+        has turned out to be the truth.
+007:015 And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn
+        out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which
+        all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety
+        with which you welcomed him.
+007:016 I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
+008:001 But we desire to let you know, brethren, of the grace of God
+        which has been bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia;
+008:002 how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless
+        joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase
+        their generous liberality.
+008:003 For I can testify that to the utmost of their power,
+        and even beyond their power, they have of their own free
+        will given help.
+008:004 With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of
+        being allowed to share in the service now being rendered
+        to God's people.
+008:005 They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in
+        obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord
+        and to us.
+008:006 This led us to urge Titus that, as he had previously been
+        the one who commenced the work, so he should now go and complete
+        among you this act of beneficence also.
+008:007 Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech,
+        knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you,
+        implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving
+        also flourishes in you.
+008:008 I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard
+        of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.
+008:009 For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ--
+        how for your sakes He became poor, though He was rich,
+        in order that you through His poverty might grow rich.
+008:010 But in this matter I give you an opinion; for my doing this helps
+        forward your own intentions, seeing that not only have you
+        begun operations, but a year ago you already had the desire
+        to do so.
+008:011 And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there
+        was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be
+        the accomplishment in proportion to your means.
+008:012 For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable
+        according to whatever a man has, and not according to what
+        he has not.
+008:013 I do not urge you to give in order that others may have relief
+        while you are unduly pressed,
+008:014 but that, by equalization of burdens, your superfluity
+        having in the present emergency supplied their deficiency,
+        their superfluity may in turn be a supply for your deficiency
+        later on, so that there may be equalization of burdens.
+008:015 Even as it is written, "He who gathered much had not too much,
+        and he who gathered little had not too little."
+008:016 But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus
+        with the same deep interest in you;
+008:017 for Titus welcomed our request, and, being thoroughly in earnest,
+        comes to you of his own free will.
+008:018 And we send with him the brother whose praises for his
+        earnestness in proclaiming the Good News are heard throughout
+        all the Churches.
+008:019 And more than that, he is the one who was chosen by the vote
+        of the Churches to travel with us, sharing our commission
+        in the administration of this generous gift to promote
+        the Lord's glory and gratify our own strong desire.
+008:020 For against one thing we are on our guard--I mean against blame
+        being thrown upon us in respect to these large and liberal
+        contributions which are under our charge.
+008:021 For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity,
+        but man's also.
+008:022 And we send with them our brother, of whose zeal we have had
+        frequent proof in many matters, and who is now more zealous
+        than ever through the strong confidence which he has in you.
+008:023 As for Titus, remember that he is a partner with me, and is
+        my comrade in my labours for you.  And as for our brethren,
+        remember that they are delegates from the Churches, and are
+        men in whom Christ is glorified.
+008:024 Exhibit therefore to the Churches a proof of your love,
+        and a justification of our boasting to these brethren about you.
+009:001 As to the services which are being rendered to God's people,
+        it is really unnecessary for me to write to you.
+009:002 For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I
+        habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out
+        to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready;
+        and the greater number of them have been spurred on
+        by your ardour.
+009:003 Still I send the brethren in order that in this matter our
+        boast about you may not turn out to have been an idle one;
+        so that, as I have said, you may be ready;
+009:004 for fear that, if any Macedonians come with me and find
+        you unprepared, we--not to say you yourselves--should be put
+        to the blush in respect to this confidence.
+009:005 I have thought it absolutely necessary therefore to request
+        these brethren to visit you before I myself come, and to make
+        sure beforehand that the gift of love which you have already
+        promised may be ready as a gift of love, and may not seem
+        to have been something which I have extorted from you.
+009:006 But do not forget that he who sows with a niggardly hand will
+        also reap a niggardly crop, and that he who sows bountifully
+        will also reap bountifully.
+009:007 Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind,
+        and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion.
+        "It is a cheerful giver that God loves."
+009:008 And God is able to bestow every blessing on you in abundance,
+        so that richly enjoying all sufficiency at all times,
+        you may have ample means for all good works.
+009:009 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given
+        to the poor, his almsgiving remains for ever."
+009:010 And God who continually supplies seed for the sower and bread
+        for eating, will supply you with seed and multiply it,
+        and will cause your almsgiving to yield a plentiful harvest.
+009:011 May you be abundantly enriched so as to show all liberality,
+        such as through our instrumentality brings thanksgiving to God.
+009:012 For the service rendered in this sacred gift not only helps
+        to relieve the wants of God's people, but it is also rich
+        in its results and awakens a chorus of thanksgiving to God.
+009:013 For, by the practical proof of it which you exhibit in
+        this service, you cause God to be extolled for your fidelity
+        to your professed adherence to the Good News of the Christ,
+        and for the liberality of your contributions for them and
+        for all who are in need,
+009:014 while they themselves also in supplications on your behalf
+        pour out their longing love towards you because of God's
+        surpassing grace which is resting upon you.
+009:015 Thanks be to God for His unspeakably precious gift!
+010:001 But as for me Paul, I entreat you by the gentleness and
+        self-forgetfulness of Christ--I who when among you have not
+        an imposing personal presence, but when absent am fearlessly
+        outspoken in dealing with you.
+010:002 I beseech you not to compel me when present to make a bold
+        display of the confidence with which I reckon I shall show
+        my `courage' against some who reckon that we are guided
+        by worldly principles.
+010:003 For, though we are still living in the world, it is no worldly
+        warfare that we are waging.
+010:004 The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons,
+        but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.
+010:005 For we overthrow arrogant `reckonings,' and every stronghold
+        that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God,
+        and we carry off every thought as if into slavery--
+        into subjection to Christ;
+010:006 while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act
+        of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully
+        shown your obedience.
+010:007 Is it outward appearances you look to?  If any man is confident
+        as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ,
+        let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs
+        to Christ, so also do we.
+010:008 If, however, I were to boast more loudly of our Apostolic authority,
+        which the Lord has given us that we may build you up,
+        not pull you down, I should have no reason to feel ashamed.
+010:009 Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.
+010:010 For they say "His letters are authoritative and forcible,
+        but his personal presence is unimpressive, and as for eloquence,
+        he has none."
+010:011 Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever
+        we are in word by our letters when absent, the same are we
+        also in act when present.
+010:012 For we have not the `courage' to rank ourselves among,
+        or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished
+        by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise,
+        measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing
+        themselves with one another.
+010:013 We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting,
+        but will keep within the limits of the sphere which God has
+        assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you.
+010:014 For there is no undue stretch of authority on our part,
+        as though it did not extend to you.  We pressed on even
+        to Corinth, and were the first to proclaim to you the Good News
+        of the Christ.
+010:015 We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for
+        other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that,
+        as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--
+        still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger
+        field of labour,
+010:016 and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you,
+        not boasting in another man's sphere about work already
+        done by him.
+010:017 But "whoever boasts, let his boast be in the Lord."
+010:018 For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved,
+        but he whom the Lord commends.
+011:001 I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting
+        on my part.  Nay, do bear with me.
+011:002 I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy.  For I have
+        betrothed you to Christ to present you to Him like a faithful
+        bride to her one husband.
+011:003 But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve,
+        so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness
+        and their fidelity to Christ.
+011:004 If indeed some visitor is proclaiming among you another Jesus
+        whom we did not proclaim, or if you are receiving a Spirit
+        different from the One you have already received or a Good News
+        different from that which you have already welcomed,
+        your toleration is admirable!
+011:005 Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those
+        superlatively great Apostles.
+011:006 And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge
+        I am not deficient.  Nay, we have in every way made that fully
+        evident to you.
+011:007 Is it a sin that I abased myself in order for you to be exalted,
+        in that I proclaimed God's Good News to you without fee or reward?
+011:008 Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order
+        to do you service.
+011:009 And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was
+        no one to whom I became a burden--for the brethren
+        when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants--
+        and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you,
+        and will do so still.
+011:010 Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be
+        stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.
+011:011 And why?  Because I do not love you?  God knows that I do.
+011:012 But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order
+        to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire
+        an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being
+        on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.
+011:013 For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen,
+        assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
+011:014 And no wonder.  Satan, their master, can disguise himself
+        as an angel of light.
+011:015 It is therefore no great thing for his servants also
+        to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.
+        Their end will be in accordance with their actions.
+011:016 To return to what I was saying.  Let no one suppose that I
+        am foolish.  Or if you must, at any rate make allowance
+        for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they,
+        may boast a little.
+011:017 What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command,
+        but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.
+011:018 Since many boast for merely human reasons, I too will boast.
+011:019 Wise as you yourselves are, you find pleasure in tolerating fools.
+011:020 For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense,
+        makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes
+        you on the face.
+011:021 I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I
+        were admitting our own feebleness.  Yet for whatever
+        reason any one is `courageous'--I speak in mere folly--
+        I also am courageous.
+011:022 Are they Hebrews?  So am I. Are they Israelites?  So am I. Are
+        they descendants of Abraham?  So am I.
+011:023 Are they servants of Christ?  (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)
+        Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they
+        by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments,
+        by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life
+        many a time.
+011:024 From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.
+011:025 Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have
+        been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full
+        four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
+011:026 I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers
+        in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my
+        own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city,
+        dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies
+        in our midst;
+011:027 with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night,
+        in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold,
+        and with insufficient clothing.
+011:028 And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that
+        which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.
+011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak?  Who is led astray into sin,
+        and I am not aflame with indignation?
+011:030 If boast I must, it shall be of things which display my weakness.
+011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--He who is blessed
+        throughout the Ages--knows that I am speaking the truth.
+011:032 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas kept guards at
+        the gates of the city in order to apprehend me,
+011:033 but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket,
+        and so escaped his hands.
+012:001 I am compelled to boast.  It is not a profitable employment,
+        but I will proceed to visions and revelations granted me
+        by the Lord.
+012:002 I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago--whether in
+        the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know;
+        God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)
+        even to the highest Heaven.
+012:003 And I know that this man--whether in the body or apart from
+        the body I do not know;
+012:004 God knows--was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable
+        things which no human being is permitted to repeat.
+012:005 Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast,
+        except in my weaknesses.
+012:006 If however I should choose to boast, I should not be a fool
+        for so doing, for I should be speaking the truth.
+        But I forbear, lest any one should be led to estimate me
+        more highly than what his own eyes attest, or more highly
+        than what he hears from my lips.
+012:007 And judging by the stupendous grandeur of the revelations--
+        therefore lest I should be over-elated there has been sent to me,
+        like the agony of impalement, Satan's angel dealing blow
+        after blow, lest I should be over-elated.
+012:008 As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid
+        me of him;
+012:009 but His reply has been, "My grace suffices for you,
+        for power matures in weakness."  Most gladly therefore
+        will I boast of my infirmities rather than complain of them--
+        in order that Christ's power may overshadow me.
+012:010 In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults,
+        in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties--
+        for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
+012:011 It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled
+        me to do so.  Why, you ought to have been my vindicators;
+        for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively
+        great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.
+012:012 The signs that characterize the true Apostle have been done
+        among you, accompanied by unwearied fortitude, and by tokens
+        and marvels and displays of power.
+012:013 In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than
+        other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead
+        weight upon you?  Forgive the injustice I thus did you!
+012:014 See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I
+        will not be a dead weight to you.  I desire not your money,
+        but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents,
+        but parents for their children.
+012:015 And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be
+        utterly spent for your salvation.
+012:016 If I love you so intensely, am I the less to be loved?
+        Be that as it may:  I was not a burden to you.
+        But being by no means scrupulous, I entrapped you, they say!
+012:017 Have I gained any selfish advantage over you through any one
+        of the messengers I have sent to you?
+012:018 I begged Titus to visit you, and sent our other brother
+        with him.  Did Titus gain any selfish advantage over you?
+        Were not he and I guided by one and the same Spirit, and did
+        we not walk in the same steps?
+012:019 You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our
+        defense at your bar.  In reality it is as in God's presence
+        and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends,
+        it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.
+012:020 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may not find you to be
+        what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire;
+        that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling,
+        party spirit, ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest;
+012:021 and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God
+        in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose
+        hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not
+        repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality,
+        of which they have been guilty.
+013:001 This intended visit of mine is my third visit to you.
+        "On the evidence of two or three witnesses every charge
+        shall be sustained."
+013:002 Those who cling to their old sins, and indeed all of you,
+        I have forewarned and still forewarn (as I did on my second
+        visit when present, so I do now, though absent) that, when I
+        come again, I shall not spare you;
+013:003 since you want a practical proof of the fact that Christ
+        speaks by my lips--He who is not feeble towards you,
+        but powerful among you.
+013:004 For though it is true that He was crucified through weakness,
+        yet He now lives through the power of God.  We also are weak,
+        sharing His weakness, but with Him we shall be full of life
+        to deal with you through the power of God.
+013:005 Test yourselves to discover whether you are true believers:
+        put your own selves under examination.  Or do you not know
+        that Jesus Christ is within you, unless you are insincere?
+013:006 But I trust that you will recognize that we are not insincere.
+013:007 And our prayer to God is that you may do nothing wrong;
+        not in order that our sincerity may be demonstrated,
+        but that you may do what is right, even though our sincerity
+        may seem to be doubtful.
+013:008 For we have no power against the truth, but only for the furtherance
+        of the truth;
+013:009 and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong.
+        This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.
+013:010 For this reason I write thus while absent, that when present I
+        may not have to act severely in the exercise of the authority
+        which the Lord has given me for building up, and not
+        for pulling down.
+013:011 Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character,
+        take courage, be of one mind, live in peace.  And then God
+        who gives love and peace will be with you.
+013:012 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
+013:013 All God's people here send greetings to you.
+013:014 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
+        and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
+
+
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