2Corinthians:1:12-2
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For our glorifying is this ,
the testimony of our conscience ,
that in simplicity and sincerity of God ,
and not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God ,
we behaved ourselves in the world ,
and more abundantly toward you (
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For we write no other things to you (
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than what you {+}
read or even acknowledge ,
and I hope you {+}
will acknowledge to the end :
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as also you (
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did acknowledge us in part ,
that we are your {+}
glorying ,
even as you {+}
also are ours ,
in the day of our Lord Jesus .
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And in this confidence I was minded to come first to you (
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that you {+}
might have a second benefit ;
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and by you (
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to pass into Macedonia ,
and again from Macedonia to come to you {+},
and of you {+}
to be set forward on my journey to Judea .
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When I therefore was thus minded ,
did I show fickleness ?
Or the things that I purpose ,
do I purpose according to the flesh ,
that with me there should be the yes yes and the no no ?
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But as God is faithful ,
our word toward you (
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is not yes and no .
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For God '
s Son ,
Jesus Christ ,
who was preached among you (
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by us , [
even ]
by me and Silvanus and Timothy ,
was not yes and no ,
but in him is yes .
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For however many are the promises of God ,
in him is the yes :
therefore also through him is the Amen ,
to the glory of God through us .
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Now he who establishes us with you (
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in Christ ,
and anointed us ,
is God ;
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who also sealed us ,
and gave [
us ]
the security deposit of the Spirit in our hearts .
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But I call God for a witness on my soul ,
that to spare you (
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I forbare to come to Corinth .
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Not that we have lordship over your (
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faith ,
but are coworkers of your {+}
joy :
for in faith you {+}
stand fast .
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Now I Paul myself entreat you (
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by the meekness and gentleness of Christ ,
I who in your {+}
presence am lowly among you {+},
but being absent am of good courage toward you {+}:
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yes ,
I urge you (
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that I may not when present show courage with the confidence with which I count to be bold against some ,
who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh .
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For though we walk in the flesh ,
we do not war according to the flesh .
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For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh ,
but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds ,
casting down imaginations ,
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and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God ,
and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ ;
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and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience ,
when your (
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obedience will be made full .
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You (
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look at the things that are before your {+}
face .
If any man trusts in himself that he is Christ '
s ,
let him consider this again with himself ,
that ,
even as he is Christ '
s ,
so also are we .
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For even though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority ,
which the Lord gave for building you (
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up ,
and not for casting you {+}
down ,
I will not be put to shame :
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that I may not seem as if I would terrify you (
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by my letters .
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For ,
His letters ,
they say ,
are weighty and strong ;
but his bodily presence is weak ,
and his speech of no account .
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Let such a one reckon this ,
that ,
what we are in word by letters when we are absent ,
such [
are we ]
also in deed when we are present .
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For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of those who commend themselves :
but they themselves ,
measuring themselves by themselves ,
and comparing themselves with themselves ,
are without understanding .
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But we will not glory beyond [
our ]
measure ,
but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure ,
to reach even to you (
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For we do not stretch ourselves too much ,
as though we did not reach to you (
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for we came even as far as to you {+}
in the good news of Christ :
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not glorying beyond [
our ]
measure , [
that is ,]
in other men '
s labors ;
but having hope that ,
as your (
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faith grows ,
we will be magnified in you {+}
according to our province to [
further ]
abundance ,
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so as to preach the good news even to the parts beyond you (
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and ]
not to glory in another '
s province in regard of things ready to our hand .
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But he who glories ,
let him glory in the Lord .
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For [
it is ]
not he who commends himself [
who ]
is approved ,
but whom the Lord commends .
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Would that you (
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could bear with me in a little foolishness :
but indeed you {+}
do bear with me .
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For I am jealous over you (
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with a godly jealousy :
for I espoused you {+}
to one husband ,
that I might present you {+} [
as ]
a pure virgin to Christ .
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But I fear ,
lest by any means ,
as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness ,
your (
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minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ .
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For if someone comes preaching a different Jesus than we preached ,
or you (
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receive a spirit other than you {+}
received ,
or good news other than you {+}
accepted ,
you {+}
endure well .
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For I reckon that I am not a bit behind the very chiefest apostles .
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But though [
I am ]
unskilled in speaking ,
yet [
I am ]
not [
unskilled ]
in knowledge ;
certainly ,
in every way we have made [
this ]
manifest to you (
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in all things .
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Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you (
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might be exalted ,
because I preached to you {+}
the good news of God for nothing ?
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I robbed other churches ,
taking wages to serve you (
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and when I was present with you (
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and was in want ,
I was not a burden on any man ;
for the brothers ,
when they came from Macedonia ,
supplied the measure of my want ;
and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you {+},
and [
so ]
I will keep [
myself ].
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As the truth of Christ is in me ,
no man will stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia .
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Why ?
Because I do not love you (
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God knows .
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But what I do ,
I will continue to do ,
that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion ;
that in what they glory ,
they may be found even as we .
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For such men are false apostles ,
deceitful workers ,
fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ .
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And no wonder ;
for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light .
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It is no great thing therefore if his servants also fashion themselves as servants of righteousness ,
whose end will be according to their works .
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I say again ,
let no man think me foolish ;
but if [
you (
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do ],
yet receive me as foolish ,
that I also may glory a little .
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That which I speak ,
I don '
t speak after the Lord ,
but as in foolishness ,
in this confidence of glorying .
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Seeing that many glory after the flesh ,
I will glory also .
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For you (
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bear with the foolish gladly ,
being wise [
yourselves ].
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For you (
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bear with a man ,
if he brings you {+}
into slavery ,
if he devours you {+},
if he takes you {+} [
captive ],
if he exalts himself ,
if he strikes you {+}
on the face .
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I speak by way of shame ,
as though we had been weak .
Yet in what any is bold (
I speak in foolishness ),
I am bold also .
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Are they Hebrews ?
So am I .
Are they Israelites ?
So am I .
Are they the seed of Abraham ?
So am I .
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Are they servants of Christ ? (
I speak as one beside himself )
I more ;
in labors more abundantly ,
in prisons more abundantly ,
in stripes above measure ,
in deaths often .
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Of the Jews five times I received forty [
stripes ]
less one .
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Thrice I was beaten with rods ,
once I was stoned ,
thrice I suffered shipwreck ,
a night and a day I have been in the deep ;
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in ]
journeyings often , [
in ]
perils of rivers , [
in ]
perils of robbers , [
in ]
perils from [
my ]
countrymen , [
in ]
perils from the Gentiles , [
in ]
perils in the city , [
in ]
perils in the wilderness , [
in ]
perils in the sea , [
in ]
perils among false brothers ;
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in ]
labor and travail ,
in sleeplessness often ,
in hunger and thirst ,
in fasts often ,
in cold and nakedness .
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Besides those things that are outside ,
there is that which presses on me daily ,
anxiety for all the churches .
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Who is weak ,
and I am not weak ?
Who is caused to stumble ,
and I do not burn [
with distress ]?
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If I must surely glory ,
I will glory of the things that concern my weakness .
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The God and Father of the Lord Jesus ,
he who is blessed forevermore knows that I do not lie .
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me :
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and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall ,
and escaped his hands .
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I must surely glory ,
though it is not expedient ;
but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord .
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I know a man in Christ ,
fourteen years ago (
whether in the body ,
I don '
t know ;
or whether out of the body ,
I don '
t know ;
God knows ),
such a one caught up even to the third heaven .
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And I know such a man (
whether in the body ,
or apart from the body ,
I don '
t know ;
God knows ),
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how that he was caught up into Paradise ,
and heard unspeakable words ,
which it is not lawful for a man to utter .
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On behalf of such a one I will glory :
but on my own behalf I will not glory ,
except in [
my ]
weaknesses .
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For if I should desire to glory ,
I will not be foolish ;
for I will speak the truth :
but I forbear ,
lest any man should account of me above that which he sees me [
to be ],
or hears from me .
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And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations ,
that I should not be exalted too much ,
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh ,
a messenger of Satan to buffet me ,
that I should not be exalted too much .
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Concerning this thing I implored the Lord thrice ,
that it might depart from me .
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And he has said to me ,
My grace is sufficient for you :
for [
my ]
power is made perfect in weakness .
Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses ,
that the power of Christ may rest on me .
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Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses ,
in injuries ,
in necessities ,
in persecutions and distresses ,
for Christ '
s sake :
for when I am weak ,
then I am strong .
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I have become foolish :
you (
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compelled me ;
for I ought to have been commended of you {+}:
for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles ,
though I am nothing .
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Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you (
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in all patience ,
both by signs and wonders ,
and mighty works .
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For what is there in which you (
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were made inferior to the rest of the churches ,
except [
it is ]
that I myself was not a burden to you {+}?
Forgive me this wrong .
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Look ,
this is the third time I am ready to come to you (
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and I will not be a burden to you {+}:
for I don '
t seek yours {+},
but you {+}:
for the children ought not to lay up for the parents ,
but the parents for the children .
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And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your (
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souls .
If I love you {+}
more abundantly ,
am I loved the less ?
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But let it be so ,
I did not myself burden you (
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but ,
being crafty ,
I caught you {+}
with guile .
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Did I take advantage of you (
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by any one of them whom I have sent to you {+}?
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I exhorted Titus ,
and I sent the brother with him .
Did Titus take any advantage of you (
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Did we not walk in the same spirit ? [
Did we ]
not [
walk ]
in the same steps ?
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You (
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think all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you {+}.
In the sight of God we speak in Christ .
But all things ,
beloved , [
are ]
for your {+}
edifying .
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For I fear ,
lest by any means ,
when I come ,
I should find you (
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not such as I want ,
and should myself be found of you {+}
such as you {+}
do not want ;
lest by any means [
there should be ]
strife ,
jealousy ,
wraths ,
factions ,
backbitings ,
whisperings ,
swellings ,
tumults ;
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lest again when I come my God should humble me before you (
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and I should mourn for many of those who have sinned before ,
and didn '
t repent of the impurity and fornication and sexual immorality in which they participated .
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This is the third time I am coming to you (
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At the mouth of two witnesses or three will every word be established .
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I have said beforehand ,
and I do say beforehand ,
as when I was present the second time ,
so now ,
being absent ,
to those who have sinned before ,
and to all the rest ,
that ,
if I come again ,
I will not spare ;
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seeing that you (
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seek a proof of Christ that speaks in me ;
who toward you {+}
is not weak ,
but is powerful in you {+}:
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for he was crucified through weakness ,
yet he lives through the power of God .
For we also are weak in him ,
but we will live with him through the power of God toward you (
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Try yourselves ,
whether you (
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are in the faith ;
approve yourselves .
Or don '
t you {+}
know as to yourselves ,
that Jesus Christ is in you {+}?
Unless indeed you {+}
are disapproved .
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But I hope that you (
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will know that we are not disapproved .
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Now we pray to God that you (
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do no evil ;
not that we may appear approved ,
but that you {+}
may do that which is honorable ,
though we may be as disapproved .
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For we can do nothing against the truth ,
but for the truth .
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For we rejoice ,
when we are weak ,
and you (
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are strong :
this we also pray for ,
even your {+}
restoration .
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For this cause I write these things while absent ,
that I may not when present deal sharply ,
according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up ,
and not for casting down .
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Finally ,
brothers ,
farewell .
Be restored ;
be comforted ;
be of the same mind ;
live in peace :
and the God of love and peace will be with you (
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Greet one another with a holy kiss .
All the saints greet you (
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ ,
and the love of God ,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit ,
be with all of you (
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