1 Or, victoriously

2 Or, void

Or, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send

with letters

that is written, Death is swallowed up 1in vic-
tory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, 55
where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin; 56
and the power of sin is the law: but thanks be 57
to God, which giveth us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, my beloved 58
brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch
as ye know that your labour is not vain in the
Lord.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, 1 16
as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so
also do ye. Upon the first day of the week let 2
each one of you lay by him in store, as he may
prosper, that no collections be made when I
come. And when I arrive, whomsoever ye 3
shall approve by letters, them will I send to
carry your bounty unto Jerusalem: and if it be 4
meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
But I will come unto you, when I shall have 5
passed through Macedonia; for I do pass
through Macedonia; but with you it may be 6
that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye
may set me forward on my journey whitherso-
ever I go. For I do not wish to see you now 7
by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with
you, if the Lord permit. But I will tarry at 8
Ephesus until Pentecost; for a great door and 9
effectual is opened unto me, and there are many
adversaries.

Now if Timothy come, see that he be with 10 you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do : let no man therefore 11 despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren. But as touching 12 Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was

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will that he should come

now

not at all his will to come now; but he will Or, God's come when he shall have opportunity. 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you 14 like men, be strong. Let all that ye do be done in love.

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Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to 16 minister unto the saints), that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth 17 in the work and laboureth. And I rejoice at the 2 coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Gr. presence Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your 18 part they supplied. For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with 20 the church that is in their house. All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

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The salutation of me Paul with mine own 22 hand. If any man loveth not the Lord, let him 23 be anathema. 3 Maran atha.

The grace of

That is, Our

24 the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. be with you all in Christ Jesus.

My love

Lord cometh,

Amen.

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE

CORINTHIANS.

1 Gr. the brother.

PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the 1 1 will of God, and Timothy 'our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in the whole of Achaia: Grace 2 to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 3 Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our 4 affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto 5 us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. But whether we be afflicted, it is for 6 your comfort and salvation; or whether we be comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: and our hope for you is 7 stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort. For 8 we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 2yea, we ourselves have had the answer 9 'Or, sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not

2 Or, but we ourselves

trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth 10 the dead who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver on whom we have 'set 11 our hope that he will also still deliver us; ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

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For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and 13 more abundantly to you-ward. For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will ac14 knowledge unto the end: as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

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Some ancient read set our hope; and deliver us.

authorities

still will he

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Some ancient

And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second 16 2benefit; and by you to pass into Macedonia, Or, grace and again from Macedonia to come unto you, authorities and of you to be set forward on my journey unto read joy. 17 Judæa. When I therefore was thus minded, did I shew fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and 18 the nay nay? But as God is faithful, our word 19 toward you is not is not yea and nay. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Gr. through. Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is 20 yea.

For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of 21 God through us. Now he that stablisheth us

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with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; 'Gr. into.

1 Or, seeing that he both sealed us

Or, your faith * Some ancient

authorities read For.

authorities omit rather.

1who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of 22 the Spirit in our hearts.

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But I call God for a witness upon my soul, 23 that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth. Not that we have lordship over 24 your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. But I determined this for 12 myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow. For if I make you sorry, who 2 then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me? And I wrote this very 3 thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish 4 of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused 5 sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. Sufficient to such a one 6 Gr. the more. is this punishment which was inflicted by the Some ancient many; so that contrariwise ye should rather 7 forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you to 8 confirm your love toward him. For to this end 9 also did I write, that I might know the proof Some ancient of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. But to whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive 10 also for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, for your sakes have I for"Or, presence given it in the 'person of Christ; that no ad- 11 vantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

authorities

read whereby.

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Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of 12 Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in