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58 through our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, my beloved 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.

16 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye. 2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections 3 be made when I come. And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve by letters, them will I send to 4 carry your bounty unto Jerusalem: and if it be meet for 5 me to go also, they shall go with me. But I will come

unto you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia; for I do pass through Macedonia; but with you it may 6 be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set 7 me forward on my journey whithersoever I go. For I

do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to 8 tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit. But I will 9 tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost; for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

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Now, if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also 11 do: let no man therefore despise him. But set him

forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto 12 me: for I expect him with the brethren. But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not at all his will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.

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Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, 14 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 minister unto the saints), 16 that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one 17 that helpeth in the work and laboureth. And I rejoice

at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they sup18 plied. For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

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The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is 20 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 hand. If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema.

23 Maran atha. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be 24 with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE

CORINTHIANS.

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

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are com 5 forted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through 6 Christ. But whether we be afflicted, it is for 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: 7 and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the com8 fort. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, 9 insomuch that we despaired even of life: yea, we ourselves have had the answer of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which 10 raiseth the dead: who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our 11 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 in 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 more abundantly to you13 ward. For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will 14 acknowledge 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.

15 And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit; and by 16 you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on 17 my journey unto 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 18 there should be the yea yea and the nay nay? But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and 19 nay. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea. 20 For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, 21 unto the glory of God through us. Now be that stablisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to 24 spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth. Not that

we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of 2 your joy: for by faith ye stand. But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with 2 sorrow. For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this very 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 4 joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish 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.

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But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) 6 to you all. Sufficient to such a one is this punishment 7 which was inflicted by the many; so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his 8 overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you to con9 firm your love toward him. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye

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10 are obedient in all things. But to whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven any thing, for your sakes have I forgiven 11 it in the person of Christ; that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, 13 and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into 14 Macedonia. But thanks be unto God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh 'manifest through us the savour of his knowledge in every place. 15 For we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, in them 16 that are being saved, and in them that are perishing; to the one a savour from death unto death; to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for 17 these things? For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

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3 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you 2 or from you? Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, 3 known and read of all men, being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh. 4 And such confidence have we through Christ to God5 ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to ae

count any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency 6 is from God; who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: 7 for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life! But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away: 8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be 9 with glory? For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteous10 ness exceed in glory. For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this re11 spect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth. For if that which passeth away was with glory, much more Dsqua that which remaneth is in g glory. Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of 13 speech, and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his

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face, that the children of Israel should not look sted14 fastly on the end of that which was passing away: but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth 15 unlifted; which veil is done away in Christ. But unto

this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon 16 their heart. But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, 17 the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit: 18 and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we 2 obtained mercy, we faint not: but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to 3 every man's conscience in the sight of God. But and if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are per4 ishing: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should 5 not dawn upon them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for 6 Jesus' sake, Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and 8 not from ourselves; we are pressed on every side, yet 9 not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for

Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested 12 in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but 13 life in you. But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; 14 knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with 15 you. For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God. Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man

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