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sufferings which we also suffer: 'and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort. 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, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9yea, we ourselves have had the "answer of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: "who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we sentence have set 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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12 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 more abundantly to youward. For we write none other things unto Des read you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope and hope ye will acknowledge unto the end: "as also he deliver 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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15 And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second "benefit; and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judæa. "When I therefore was thus minded, did I shew fickleness? 40 grace or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea the read yea and the nay nay? But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay. "For the Son

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anent author

ties

Joy.

a Gr.

of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you "by us, even "by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was through not yea and nay, but in him is 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 God through us. "Now he 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.

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23 But I call God for a witness upon my soul, both seatthat to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth. 24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. But I determined this for myself, that I would aor. your not come again to you with sorrow. For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorry by me? 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 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.

5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; 750 that contrariwise ye should rather 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 confirm your love toward him. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, "whether ye are obedient in all things. But to whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also for what I also have forgiven, if I have

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forgiven any thing, for your sakes have I forgiven 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, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord, 13I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into 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. For we are a them that are word of 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 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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merchan sweet savour of Christ unto God, in

dise of the

God

III.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, 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. And such confidence have we through Christ to Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, writ

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away

ancient

ten, 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: how shall not being done rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, Many much rather doth the ministration of righteousness authori exceed in glory. For verily that which hath been For made glorious hath not been made glorious in this stra respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth. "For if that which passeth away was 'with glory, glory. much more that which remaineth is in glory.

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12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great leg done boldness of speech, and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was through. passing away: "but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old "covenant the same veil 'remaineth unlifted; which veil is done away in Christ. But unto this day, whenso- thoughts. ever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. 16But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil testament is taken away. "Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, meth, But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the that it is same image from glory to glory, even as from Lord the Spirit.

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Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not: but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, or not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But and if our gospel

a Or, age

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is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing: 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 thoughts. not dawn upon them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your 'servants for Jesus' sake. 'Seeing it is God, that they said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined light 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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should

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image of God

d Gr. illu

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Some

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7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be mination. of God, and not from ourselves; we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten servants down, yet not destroyed; "always bearing about in the body the "dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. "For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' ties read sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. "So then death worketh in us, but 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; knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also putting to With Jesus, and shall present us with 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.

through Jesus.

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ties om t

16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outthe Lord ward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. day. For our light affliction, which

is for the moment, worketh for us more and more Gr the exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the

more.