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    <book number='47' name='2 Corinthians' abbreviation='2 Cor' testament='new'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='3972'>Paul</strongs>, an <strongs greek='652'>apostle</strongs>of <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5095'>Timothy</strongs><em>our</em> <strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs>, unto <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>church</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>which <strongs greek='5607'>is</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>at</strongs><strongs greek='2882'>Corinth</strongs>, <strongs greek='4862'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs>which <strongs greek='5607'>are</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3650'>all</strongs><strongs greek='882'>Achaia</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='5485'>Grace</strongs><em>be</em> to <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1515'>peace</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>from</em> the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='2128'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs>the <strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>of <strongs greek='3628'>mercies</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>the <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>of <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>comfort</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='3588'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='3870'>comforteth</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>tribulation</strongs>, that <strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs>may be <strongs greek='1410'>able</strongs>to <strongs greek='3870'>comfort</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>them</strongs>which are <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>any</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>trouble</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>comfort</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>wherewith</strongs><strongs greek='848'>we</strongs>ourselves are <strongs greek='3870'>comforted</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3804'>sufferings</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='4052'>abound</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>consolation</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='4052'>aboundeth</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs>we be <strongs greek='2346'>afflicted</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>consolation</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>, which is <strongs greek='1754'>effectual</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='5281'>enduring</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='3804'>sufferings</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='3958'>suffer</strongs>: or <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs>we be <strongs greek='3870'>comforted</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>consolation</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='949'>steadfast</strongs>, <strongs greek='1492'>knowing</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='5618'>as</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2075'>are</strongs><strongs greek='2844'>partakers</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3804'>sufferings</strongs>, <strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>ye</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>consolation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='2309'>would</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>, <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, have you <strongs greek='50 5209'>ignorant</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>trouble</strongs>which <strongs greek='1096'>came</strongs>to <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='773'>Asia</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>we were <strongs greek='916'>pressed</strongs>out of <strongs greek='2596 5236'>measure</strongs>, <strongs greek='5228'>above</strongs><strongs greek='1411'>strength</strongs>, insomuch <strongs greek='5620'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs><strongs greek='1820'>despaired</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs>of <strongs greek='2198'>life</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs><strongs greek='848'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='610'>sentence</strongs>of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>we <strongs greek='5600'>should</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3982'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>which <strongs greek='1453'>raiseth</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3498'>dead</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='4506'>delivered</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs>so <strongs greek='5082'>great</strongs>a <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>doth <strongs greek='4506'>deliver</strongs>: <strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>we <strongs greek='1679'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>he <strongs greek='*2532'>will</strongs><strongs greek='2089'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='4506'>deliver</strongs><em>us;</em> </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='5216'>Ye</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>helping <strongs greek='4943'>together</strongs>by <strongs greek='1162'>prayer</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>for the <strongs greek='5486'>gift</strongs><em>bestowed</em> <strongs greek='1519'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>by the means <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>persons</strongs>thanks may be <strongs greek='2168'>given</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs>on our <strongs greek='5228 2257'>behalf</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2746'>rejoicing</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='3778'>this</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3142'>testimony</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='572'>simplicity</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>godly</strongs><strongs greek='1505'>sincerity</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>with</strongs><strongs greek='4559'>fleshly</strongs><strongs greek='4678'>wisdom</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, we have had our <strongs greek='390'>conversation</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs>more <strongs greek='4056'>abundantly</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>-ward. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='1125'>write</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>none</strongs>other <strongs greek='243'>things</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='235 2228'>than</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>what</strongs>ye <strongs greek='314'>read</strongs><strongs greek='2228 *2532'>or</strongs><strongs greek='1921'>acknowledge</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs>I <strongs greek='1679'>trust</strongs>ye <strongs greek='*3754'>shall</strongs><strongs greek='1921'>acknowledge</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='2193'>to</strongs>the <strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='2531'>As</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>ye have <strongs greek='1921'>acknowledged</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='575'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3313'>part</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>we <strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2745'>rejoicing</strongs>, even <strongs greek='2509'>as</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='2257'>ours</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>in <strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='4006'>confidence</strongs>I was <strongs greek='1014'>minded</strongs>to <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='4386'>before</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye might <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>a <strongs greek='1208'>second</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>benefit</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>to <strongs greek='1330'>pass</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3109'>Macedonia</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>out <strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3109'>Macedonia</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>to be brought on my <strongs greek='4311'>way</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='2449'>Judea</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>When I <strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs>was thus <strongs greek='1011 5124'>minded</strongs>, did <strongs greek='*3385 686'>I</strongs><strongs greek='5530'>use</strongs><strongs greek='1644'>lightness</strongs>? <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs>the things <strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs>I <strongs greek='1011'>purpose</strongs>, do I <strongs greek='1011'>purpose</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3844'>with</strongs><strongs greek='1698'>me</strongs>there should <strongs greek='5600'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3483'>yea</strongs><strongs greek='3483'>yea</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>nay</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>nay</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><em>as</em> <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='4103 *3754'>true</strongs>, <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>was</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>yea and <strongs greek='3483 2532 3756'>nay</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>Son</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, who was <strongs greek='2784'>preached</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>among</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1700'>me</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4610'>Silvanus</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5095'>Timothy</strongs>, <strongs greek='1096'>was</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>yea and <strongs greek='3483 2532 3756'>nay</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='1096'>was</strongs><strongs greek='3483'>yea</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3745'>all</strongs>the <strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='3483'>yea</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846 *3588'>him</strongs><strongs greek='281'>Amen</strongs>, <strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs>the <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>he which <strongs greek='950'>establisheth</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='4862'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>hath <strongs greek='5548'>anointed</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>, <em>is</em> <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Who hath also <strongs greek='4972 2532'>sealed</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='728'>earnest</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs greek='1161'>Moreover</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='1941'>call</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>for a <strongs greek='3144'>record</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='1699'>my</strongs><strongs greek='5590'>soul</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>to <strongs greek='5339'>spare</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>I <strongs greek='2064'>came</strongs>not as <strongs greek='3765'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2882'>Corinth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='3756'>Not</strongs>for <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>we have dominion <strongs greek='2961'>over</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='4904'>helpers</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joy</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>by <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2476'>stand</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>I <strongs greek='2919'>determined</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>with <strongs greek='1683'>myself</strongs>, that I would <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3077'>heaviness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs>make you <strongs greek='3076 5209'>sorry</strongs>, <strongs greek='5101'>who</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>he then that maketh me <strongs greek='2165 3165'>glad</strongs>, <strongs greek='1508'>but</strongs>the same which is made <strongs greek='3076'>sorry</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1700'>me</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>I <strongs greek='1125'>wrote</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>, when I <strongs greek='2064'>came</strongs>, I should <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='3077'>sorrow</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs>them of <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>I</strongs><strongs greek='1163'>ought</strongs>to <strongs greek='5463'>rejoice</strongs>; having <strongs greek='3982'>confidence</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1699'>my</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joy</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><em>the</em> <em>joy</em> of <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>affliction</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4928'>anguish</strongs>of <strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>I <strongs greek='1125'>wrote</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>with</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs><strongs greek='1144'>tears</strongs>; <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye should be <strongs greek='3076'>grieved</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye might <strongs greek='1097'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>I <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>more <strongs greek='4056'>abundantly</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs>have caused <strongs greek='3076'>grief</strongs>, he hath <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3076'>grieved</strongs><strongs greek='1691'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>in <strongs greek='575 3313'>part</strongs>: <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>I may <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1912'>overcharge</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='2425'>Sufficient</strongs>to such a <strongs greek='5108'>man</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3778'>this</strongs><strongs greek='2009'>punishment</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs><em>was</em> <em>inflicted</em> <strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='4119'>many</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>So <strongs greek='5620'>that</strongs><strongs greek='5121'>contrariwise</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>ye</strongs><em>ought</em> <strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs>to <strongs greek='5483'>forgive</strongs><em>him,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3870'>comfort</strongs><em>him,</em> <strongs greek='3381'>lest</strongs>perhaps such a <strongs greek='5108'>one</strongs>should be swallowed <strongs greek='2666'>up</strongs>with <strongs greek='4055'>overmuch</strongs><strongs greek='3077'>sorrow</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>I <strongs greek='3870'>beseech</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>that ye would <strongs greek='2964'>confirm</strongs><em>your</em> <strongs greek='26'>love</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs>this <strongs greek='5124'>end</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>did I <strongs greek='1125'>write</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>I might <strongs greek='1097'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1382'>proof</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='1487'>whether</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2075'>be</strongs><strongs greek='5255'>obedient</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='*1161'></strongs>To <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>ye <strongs greek='5483'>forgive</strongs>any <strongs greek='5100'>thing</strongs>, <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><em>forgive</em> <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>if I forgave any <strongs greek='1536 1473 5483'>thing</strongs>, to <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>I <strongs greek='5483'>forgave</strongs><em>it,</em> for your <strongs greek='1223 5209'>sakes</strongs><em>forgave</em> <em>I</em> <em>it</em> <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4383'>person</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='3363'>Lest</strongs><strongs greek='4567'>Satan</strongs>should get an <strongs greek='4122'>advantage</strongs>of us: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>we are not <strongs greek='50 3756'>ignorant</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3540'>devices</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Furthermore, when I <strongs greek='2064'>came</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5174'>Troas</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><em>preach</em> <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>'s <strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>a <strongs greek='2374'>door</strongs>was <strongs greek='455'>opened</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>of</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='13'>I <strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='425'>rest</strongs>in <strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>, because <strongs greek='3165'>I</strongs><strongs greek='2147'>found</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>taking my <strongs greek='657'>leave</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, I went from <strongs greek='1831'>thence</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3109'>Macedonia</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>thanks</strongs><em>be</em> unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, which always causeth us to <strongs greek='2358 3842 2248'>triumph</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>maketh <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3744'>savor</strongs>of <strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='1108'>knowledge</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='5117'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>a sweet <strongs greek='2175'>savor</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>them that are <strongs greek='4982'>saved</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>them that <strongs greek='622'>perish</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='16'>To the <strongs greek='3739 3303'>one</strongs><em>we</em> <em>are</em> the <strongs greek='3744'>savor</strongs>of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs>to the <strongs greek='3739'>other</strongs>the <strongs greek='3744'>savor</strongs>of <strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs>. <strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='2425'>sufficient</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>for</strongs>these <strongs greek='5023'>things</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs>, which <strongs greek='2585'>corrupt</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1505'>sincerity</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, in the <strongs greek='2714'>sight</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs>we <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'>Do we <strongs greek='756'>begin</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>to <strongs greek='4921'>commend</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>? <strongs greek='1508'>or</strongs><strongs greek='5535'>need</strongs>we, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs><em>others,</em> <strongs greek='1992'>epistles</strongs>of <strongs greek='4956'>commendation</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><em>letters</em> of <strongs greek='4956'>commendation</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='5210'>Ye</strongs><strongs greek='2075'>are</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='1992'>epistle</strongs><strongs greek='1449'>written</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>, <strongs greek='1097'>known</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='314'>read</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'><em>Forasmuch as ye are</em> manifestly <strongs greek='5319'>declared</strongs><strongs greek='*3754'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2075'>be</strongs>the <strongs greek='1992'>epistle</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='1247'>ministered</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='1449'>written</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>with <strongs greek='3188'>ink</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>with the <strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4109'>tables</strongs>of <strongs greek='3035'>stone</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4560'>fleshy</strongs><strongs greek='4109'>tables</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs><strongs greek='4006'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>we <strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>-ward: </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='3756'>Not</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>we <strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='2425'>sufficient</strongs><strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>to <strongs greek='3049'>think</strongs>any <strongs greek='5100'>thing</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2426'>sufficiency</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='3739'>Who</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>hath made us <strongs greek='2427 2248'>able</strongs><strongs greek='1249'>ministers</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2537'>new</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs>; <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>of the <strongs greek='1121'>letter</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>of the <strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1121'>letter</strongs><strongs greek='615'>killeth</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>giveth <strongs greek='2227'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministration</strongs>of <strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722 1121'>written</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs greek='1795'>engraven</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3037'>stones</strongs>, <strongs greek='1096'>was</strongs><strongs greek='1722 1391'>glorious</strongs>, so <strongs greek='5620'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>children</strongs>of <strongs greek='2474'>Israel</strongs><strongs greek='1410'>could</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='816'>steadfastly</strongs><strongs greek='*1519'>behold</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>face</strongs>of <strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>countenance</strongs>; which <em>glory</em> was to be done <strongs greek='2673'>away</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='4459'>How</strongs>shall <strongs greek='3780'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministration</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs><strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs><strongs greek='1722 1391'>glorious</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministration</strongs>of <strongs greek='2633'>condemnation</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>, <strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs>doth <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministration</strongs>of <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs><strongs greek='4052'>exceed</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs>that which was made <strongs greek='1392'>glorious</strongs>had no <strongs greek='1392 3761'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5129'>this</strongs><strongs greek='3313'>respect</strongs>, by reason <strongs greek='1752'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>that <strongs greek='5235'>excelleth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs>that which is done <strongs greek='2673'>away</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs greek='1223 1391'>glorious</strongs>, <strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs>that which <strongs greek='3306'>remaineth</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='1722 1391'>glorious</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Seeing <strongs greek='3767'>then</strongs>that we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs><strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs>, we <strongs greek='5530'>use</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>great</strongs>plainness of <strongs greek='3954'>speech</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2509'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>, <em>which</em> <strongs greek='5087'>put</strongs>a <strongs greek='2571'>veil</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>over</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>face</strongs>, that <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>children</strongs>of <strongs greek='2474'>Israel</strongs>could <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>steadfastly <strongs greek='816'>look</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>of that which is <strongs greek='2673'>abolished</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='3540'>minds</strongs>were <strongs greek='4456'>blinded</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='891'>until</strongs>this <strongs greek='4594'>day</strongs><strongs greek='3306'>remaineth</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='2571'>veil</strongs>untaken <strongs greek='343 3361'>away</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='320'>reading</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3820'>old</strongs><strongs greek='1242'>testament</strongs>; <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs><em>veil</em> is done <strongs greek='2673'>away</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs>even <strongs greek='2193'>unto</strongs>this <strongs greek='4594'>day</strongs>, <strongs greek='2259'>when</strongs><strongs greek='3475'>Moses</strongs>is <strongs greek='314'>read</strongs>, the <strongs greek='2571'>veil</strongs><strongs greek='2749'>is</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1161'>Nevertheless</strongs><strongs greek='2259 302'>when</strongs>it shall <strongs greek='1994'>turn</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2571'>veil</strongs>shall be taken <strongs greek='4014'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>that <strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3757'>where</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><em>is,</em> <strongs greek='1563'>there</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='1657'>liberty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, with <strongs greek='343'>open</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>face</strongs>beholding as in a <strongs greek='2734'>glass</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, are <strongs greek='3339'>changed</strongs>into <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='1504'>image</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs greek='2509'>as</strongs><strongs greek='575'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1223 5124'>Therefore</strongs>seeing we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministry</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>we have received <strongs greek='1653'>mercy</strongs>, we <strongs greek='1573'>faint</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs>have <strongs greek='550'>renounced</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>hidden <strongs greek='2927'>things</strongs>of <strongs greek='152'>dishonesty</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4043'>walking</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3834'>craftiness</strongs>, <strongs greek='3366'>nor</strongs>handling the word of God <strongs greek='1389 3588 3056 2316'>deceitfully</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>by <strongs greek='5321'>manifestation</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs><strongs greek='4921'>commending</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>'s <strongs greek='4893'>conscience</strongs>in the <strongs greek='1799'>sight</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1487 *2532'>if</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2572'>hid</strongs>, it <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='2572'>hid</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>to</strongs>them that are <strongs greek='622'>lost</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1722'>In</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>god</strongs>of <strongs greek='5127'>this</strongs><strongs greek='165'>world</strongs>hath <strongs greek='5186'>blinded</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3540'>minds</strongs>of them which believe <strongs greek='571'>not</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>lest</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5462'>light</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glorious</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>who</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>the <strongs greek='1504'>image</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, should <strongs greek='826'>shine</strongs>unto <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='2784'>preach</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='1401'>servants</strongs>for Jesus' <strongs greek='1223 2424'>sake</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, who <strongs greek='2036'>commanded</strongs>the <strongs greek='5457'>light</strongs>to <strongs greek='2989'>shine</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='4655'>darkness</strongs>, <strongs greek='*3739'>hath</strongs><strongs greek='2989'>shined</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>, <strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><em>give</em> the <strongs greek='5462'>light</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1108'>knowledge</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4383'>face</strongs>of <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs><strongs greek='5126'>this</strongs><strongs greek='2344'>treasure</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3749'>earthen</strongs><strongs greek='4632'>vessels</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5236'>excellency</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>may <strongs greek='5600'>be</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><em>We are</em> <strongs greek='2346'>troubled</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs>every <strongs greek='3956'>side</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4729'>distressed</strongs>; <em>we</em> <em>are</em> <strongs greek='639'>perplexed</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>in <strongs greek='1820'>despair</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1377'>Persecuted</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1459'>forsaken</strongs>; cast <strongs greek='2598'>down</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='622'>destroyed</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='3842'>Always</strongs>bearing <strongs greek='4064'>about</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3500'>dying</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>of <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>might be made <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>which <strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs>are <strongs greek='104'>always</strongs><strongs greek='3860'>delivered</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>for Jesus' <strongs greek='1223 2424'>sake</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>of <strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>might be made <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2349'>mortal</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>So <strongs greek='5620'>then</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs><strongs greek='1754'>worketh</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='*1161'></strongs>We <strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>of <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, according <strongs greek='2596'>as</strongs>it is <strongs greek='1125'>written</strongs>, I <strongs greek='4100'>believed</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1352'>therefore</strongs>have I <strongs greek='2980'>spoken</strongs>; <strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='4100'>believe</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1352'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1492'>Knowing</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>he which raised <strongs greek='1453'>up</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>shall raise <strongs greek='1453'>up</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>shall <strongs greek='3936'>present</strongs><em>us</em> <strongs greek='4862'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs><em>are</em> for your <strongs greek='1223 5209'>sakes</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4121'>abundant</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>might <strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2169'>thanksgiving</strongs>of <strongs greek='4119'>many</strongs><strongs greek='4052'>redound</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>For which <strongs greek='1352'>cause</strongs>we <strongs greek='1573'>faint</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='1854'>outward</strongs><strongs greek='444'>man</strongs><strongs greek='1311'>perish</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2081'>inward</strongs><em>man</em> is <strongs greek='341'>renewed</strongs>day by <strongs greek='2250 2532 2250'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='1645'>light</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>affliction</strongs>, which is but for a <strongs greek='3910'>moment</strongs>, <strongs greek='2716'>worketh</strongs>for <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>a far more <strongs greek='2596 5236 1519 5236'>exceeding</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='922'>weight</strongs>of <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='18'>While <strongs greek='2257'>we</strongs>look not <strongs greek='4648 3361'>at</strongs>the things which are <strongs greek='991'>seen</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>at the things which are not <strongs greek='991 3361'>seen</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>the things which are <strongs greek='991'>seen</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='4340'>temporal</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>the things which are not <strongs greek='991 3361'>seen</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='1492'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='1919'>earthly</strongs><strongs greek='3614'>house</strongs>of <em>this</em> <strongs greek='4636'>tabernacle</strongs>were <strongs greek='2647'>dissolved</strongs>, we <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>a <strongs greek='3619'>building</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, a <strongs greek='3614'>house</strongs>not made with <strongs greek='886'>hands</strongs>, <strongs greek='166'>eternal</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heavens</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5129'>this</strongs><strongs greek='*2532'>we</strongs><strongs greek='4727'>groan</strongs>, earnestly <strongs greek='1971'>desiring</strongs>to be clothed <strongs greek='1902'>upon</strongs>with <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='3613'>house</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs>is <strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'>If so <strongs greek='1489'>be</strongs><strongs greek='*2532'>that</strongs>being <strongs greek='1746'>clothed</strongs>we shall <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>be <strongs greek='2147'>found</strongs><strongs greek='1131'>naked</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we that <strongs greek='5607'>are</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><em>this</em> <strongs greek='4636'>tabernacle</strongs>do <strongs greek='4727'>groan</strongs>, being <strongs greek='916'>burdened</strongs>: <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>for <strongs greek='1909 3739'>that</strongs>we <strongs greek='2309'>would</strongs>be <strongs greek='1562'>unclothed</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>clothed <strongs greek='1902'>upon</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2349'>mortality</strongs>might be swallowed <strongs greek='2666'>up</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2222'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>he that hath <strongs greek='2716'>wrought</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs>the selfsame <strongs greek='846 5124'>thing</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, who also hath <strongs greek='1325 2532'>given</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='728'>earnest</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Spirit</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='3767'>Therefore</strongs><em>we</em> <em>are</em> <strongs greek='3842'>always</strongs><strongs greek='2292'>confident</strongs>, <strongs greek='*1492'>knowing</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>, whilst we are at <strongs greek='1736'>home</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, we are <strongs greek='1553'>absent</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='7'>( <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='4043'>walk</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1491'>sight</strongs>:) </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='*1161'></strongs>We are <strongs greek='2292'>confident</strongs>, <em>I</em> <em>say,</em> <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2106'>willing</strongs><strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs>to be <strongs greek='1553'>absent</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to be <strongs greek='1736'>present</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs greek='*2532'>we</strongs><strongs greek='5389'>labor</strongs>, that, <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs><strongs greek='1736'>present</strongs><strongs greek='1535'>or</strongs><strongs greek='1553'>absent</strongs>, we may <strongs greek='1511'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2101'>accepted</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs><strongs greek='1163'>must</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='5319'>appear</strongs><strongs greek='1715'>before</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>judgment <strongs greek='968'>seat</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>every <strongs greek='1538'>one</strongs>may <strongs greek='2865'>receive</strongs>the <strongs greek='3588'>things</strongs><em>done</em> <strongs greek='1223'>in</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, <strongs greek='4314'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='4238'>done</strongs>, <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs><em>it</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='18'>good</strongs><strongs greek='1535'>or</strongs><strongs greek='2556'>bad</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1492'>Knowing</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5401'>terror</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, we <strongs greek='3982'>persuade</strongs><strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>we are made <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs>I <strongs greek='1679'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>are made <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='4893'>consciences</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='4921'>commend</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1325'>give</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='874'>occasion</strongs>to <strongs greek='2745'>glory</strongs>on our <strongs greek='5228 2257'>behalf</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye may <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>somewhat <strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><em>answer</em> them which <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>appearance</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>in <strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs>we be beside <strongs greek='1839'>ourselves</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>: or <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs>we be <strongs greek='4993'>sober</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> for your <strongs greek='5213'>cause</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='4912'>constraineth</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>; because we <strongs greek='5124'>thus</strongs><strongs greek='2919'>judge</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs><strongs greek='1520'>one</strongs><strongs greek='599'>died</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, <strongs greek='686'>then</strongs>were all <strongs greek='599 3956'>dead</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><em>that</em> he <strongs greek='599'>died</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>they which <strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs>should not <strongs greek='3371'>henceforth</strongs><strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs>unto <strongs greek='1438'>themselves</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>unto him which <strongs greek='599'>died</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>rose <strongs greek='1453'>again</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='5620'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs greek='575 3568'>henceforth</strongs><strongs greek='1492'>know</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>yea</strongs>, <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>we have <strongs greek='1097'>known</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs>henceforth <strongs greek='1097'>know</strongs>we <em>him</em> no <strongs greek='3765'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='5620'>Therefore</strongs>if any <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <em>he</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs greek='2537'>new</strongs><strongs greek='2937'>creature</strongs>: old <strongs greek='744'>things</strongs>are passed <strongs greek='3928'>away</strongs>; <strongs greek='2400'>behold</strongs>, all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>are <strongs greek='1096'>become</strongs><strongs greek='2537'>new</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, who hath <strongs greek='2644'>reconciled</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>to <strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>hath <strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs>to <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministry</strongs>of <strongs greek='2643'>reconciliation</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='19'>To <strongs greek='5613'>wit</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='2258'>was</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='2644'>reconciling</strongs>the <strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs>unto <strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3049'>imputing</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='3900'>trespasses</strongs>unto <strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>hath <strongs greek='5087'>committed</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='2643'>reconciliation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Now <strongs greek='3767'>then</strongs>we are <strongs greek='4243'>ambassadors</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, as <strongs greek='5613'>though</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>did <strongs greek='3870'>beseech</strongs><em>you</em> <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>; we <strongs greek='1189'>pray</strongs><em>you</em> in Christ's <strongs greek='5228 5547'>stead</strongs>, be ye <strongs greek='2644'>reconciled</strongs>to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he hath <strongs greek='4160'>made</strongs>him <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>, who <strongs greek='1097'>knew</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>no</strongs><strongs greek='266'>sin</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>might be <strongs greek='1096'>made</strongs>the <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'>We <strongs greek='1161'>then</strongs>, as workers <strongs greek='4903'>together</strongs><em>with</em> <em>him,</em> <strongs greek='3870'>beseech</strongs><em>you</em> <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>that <strongs greek='5209'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='1209'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2756'>vain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>( <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>he <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>, I have <strongs greek='1873'>heard</strongs><strongs greek='4675'>thee</strongs>in a <strongs greek='2540'>time</strongs><strongs greek='1184'>accepted</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>of <strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>have I <strongs greek='997'>succored</strongs><strongs greek='4671'>thee</strongs>: <strongs greek='2400'>behold</strongs>, <strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs greek='2144'>accepted</strongs><strongs greek='2540'>time</strongs>; <strongs greek='2400'>behold</strongs>, <strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs greek='2250'>day</strongs>of <strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1325'>Giving</strongs><strongs greek='3367'>no</strongs><strongs greek='4349'>offense</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>any <strongs greek='3367'>thing</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministry</strongs>be <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3469'>blamed</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>things</em> <strongs greek='4921'>approving</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>the <strongs greek='1249'>ministers</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='5281'>patience</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>afflictions</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='318'>necessities</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4730'>distresses</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1722'>In</strongs><strongs greek='4127'>stripes</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5438'>imprisonments</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='181'>tumults</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2873'>labors</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='70'>watchings</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3521'>fastings</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1722'>By</strongs><strongs greek='54'>pureness</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1108'>knowledge</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3115'>longsuffering</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5544'>kindness</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs><strongs greek='505'>unfeigned</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1722'>By</strongs>the <strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs>of <strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3696'>armor</strongs>of <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>on <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>right <strongs greek='1188'>hand</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>on the <strongs greek='710'>left</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1223'>By</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>honor</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='819'>dishonor</strongs>, <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>evil <strongs greek='1426'>report</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>good <strongs greek='2162'>report</strongs>: <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='4108'>deceivers</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>yet</em> <strongs greek='227'>true</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='5613'>As</strongs><strongs greek='50'>unknown</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>yet</em> well <strongs greek='1921'>known</strongs>; <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='599'>dying</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>, <strongs greek='2400'>behold</strongs>, we <strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs>; <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3811'>chastened</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2289'>killed</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='5613'>As</strongs><strongs greek='3076'>sorrowful</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='104'>always</strongs><strongs greek='5463'>rejoicing</strongs>; <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='4434'>poor</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>yet</strongs>making many <strongs greek='4148 4183'>rich</strongs>; <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs><strongs greek='3367'>nothing</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>yet</em> <strongs greek='2722'>possessing</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>O <em>ye</em> <strongs greek='2881'>Corinthians</strongs>, <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4750'>mouth</strongs>is <strongs greek='455'>open</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>is <strongs greek='4115'>enlarged</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Ye are <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4729'>straitened</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>ye are <strongs greek='4729'>straitened</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>your <strongs greek='5216'>own</strongs><strongs greek='4698'>bowels</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>for a <strongs greek='489'>recompense</strongs>in <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>same, <strongs greek='846'>I</strongs>( <strongs greek='3004'>speak</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>unto <em>my</em> <strongs greek='5043'>children</strongs>,) be <strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='4115'>enlarged</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1096'>Be</strongs>ye <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>unequally yoked <strongs greek='2086'>together</strongs>with <strongs greek='571'>unbelievers</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='3352'>fellowship</strongs>hath <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>with</strongs><strongs greek='458'>unrighteousness</strongs>? <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='2842'>communion</strongs>hath <strongs greek='5457'>light</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>with</strongs><strongs greek='4655'>darkness</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='4857'>concord</strongs>hath <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>with</strongs><strongs greek='955'>Belial</strongs>? <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs>what <strongs greek='3310'>part</strongs>hath he that <strongs greek='4103'>believeth</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs>an <strongs greek='571'>infidel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='4783'>agreement</strongs>hath the <strongs greek='3485'>temple</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='1497'>idols</strongs>? <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='2075'>are</strongs>the <strongs greek='3485'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2198'>living</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>hath <strongs greek='2036'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='1774'>dwell</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>walk <strongs greek='1704'>in</strongs><em>them</em> ; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>I will <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3427'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2992'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1352'>Wherefore</strongs>come <strongs greek='1831'>out</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3319'>among</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>be ye <strongs greek='873'>separate</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='680'>touch</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>the <strongs greek='169'>unclean</strongs><em>thing</em> ; and <strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>will <strongs greek='1523'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>will <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='*1519'>a</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2071 *1519'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3427'>my</strongs><strongs greek='5207'>sons</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2364'>daughters</strongs>, <strongs greek='3004'>saith</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='3841'>Almighty</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='2192'>Having</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='5025'>these</strongs><strongs greek='1860'>promises</strongs>, dearly <strongs greek='27'>beloved</strongs>, let us <strongs greek='2511'>cleanse</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3436'>filthiness</strongs>of the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>, <strongs greek='2005'>perfecting</strongs><strongs greek='42'>holiness</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='5401'>fear</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='5562'>Receive</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs>; we have <strongs greek='91'>wronged</strongs>no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs>, we have <strongs greek='5351'>corrupted</strongs>no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs>, we have <strongs greek='4122'>defrauded</strongs>no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>I <strongs greek='3004'>speak</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><em>this</em> <strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2633'>condemn</strongs><em>you</em> : <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>I have said <strongs greek='4280'>before</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2075'>are</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>hearts</strongs>to <strongs greek='4880'>die</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>live <strongs greek='4800'>with</strongs><em>you.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='4183'>Great</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3427'>my</strongs>boldness of <strongs greek='3954'>speech</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='4183'>great</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='3427'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2746'>glorying</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>: I am <strongs greek='4137'>filled</strongs>with <strongs greek='3874'>comfort</strongs>, I am <strongs greek='5248'>exceeding</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joyful</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>tribulation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>when</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>we</strongs>were <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3109'>Macedonia</strongs>, <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>had</strongs><strongs greek='3762'>no</strongs><strongs greek='425'>rest</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>we were <strongs greek='2346'>troubled</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs>every <strongs greek='3956'>side</strongs>; <strongs greek='1855'>without</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs greek='3163'>fightings</strongs>, <strongs greek='2081'>within</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs greek='5401'>fears</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='235'>Nevertheless</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, that <strongs greek='3870'>comforteth</strongs>those that are cast <strongs greek='5011'>down</strongs>, <strongs greek='3870'>comforted</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3952'>coming</strongs>of <strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3952'>coming</strongs><strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs>, <strongs greek='235 *2532'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>consolation</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>wherewith</strongs>he was <strongs greek='3870'>comforted</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, when he <strongs greek='312'>told</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs>earnest <strongs greek='1972'>desire</strongs>, <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3602'>mourning</strongs>, <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs>fervent <strongs greek='2205'>mind</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='1700'>me</strongs>; so <strongs greek='5620'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>I</strongs><strongs greek='5463'>rejoiced</strongs>the <strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>I made you <strongs greek='3076 5209'>sorry</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>with</strongs>a <strongs greek='1992'>letter</strongs>, I do <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3338'>repent</strongs>, <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>I did <strongs greek='3338'>repent</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>I <strongs greek='991'>perceive</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>same</strongs><strongs greek='1992'>epistle</strongs>hath made you <strongs greek='3076 5209'>sorry</strongs>, <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs><em>it</em> <em>were</em> but <strongs greek='4314'>for</strongs>a <strongs greek='5610'>season</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='3568'>Now</strongs>I <strongs greek='5463'>rejoice</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>ye were made <strongs greek='3076'>sorry</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>ye <strongs greek='3076'>sorrowed</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3341'>repentance</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>ye were made <strongs greek='3076'>sorry</strongs>after a godly <strongs greek='2596 2316'>manner</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye might receive <strongs greek='2210'>damage</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3367'>nothing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2596 2316'>godly</strongs><strongs greek='3077'>sorrow</strongs><strongs greek='2716'>worketh</strongs><strongs greek='3341'>repentance</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='4991'>salvation</strongs>not to be repented <strongs greek='278'>of</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3077'>sorrow</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2889'>world</strongs><strongs greek='2716'>worketh</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>death</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2400'>behold</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>selfsame <strongs greek='846'>thing</strongs>, that <strongs greek='5209'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='3076'>sorrowed</strongs>after a godly <strongs greek='2596 2316'>sort</strongs>, <strongs greek='4214'>what</strongs><strongs greek='4710'>carefulness</strongs>it <strongs greek='2716'>wrought</strongs>in <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yea</strongs>, <em>what</em> clearing of <strongs greek='627'>yourselves</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yea</strongs>, <em>what</em> <strongs greek='24'>indignation</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yea</strongs>, <em>what</em> <strongs greek='5401'>fear</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yea</strongs>, <em>what</em> vehement <strongs greek='1972'>desire</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yea</strongs>, <em>what</em> <strongs greek='2205'>zeal</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yea</strongs>, <em>what</em> <strongs greek='1557'>revenge</strongs>! <strongs greek='1722'>In</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>things</em> ye have <strongs greek='4921'>approved</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>yourselves</strongs>to <strongs greek='1511'>be</strongs><strongs greek='53'>clear</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>this <strongs greek='4229'>matter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='686'>Wherefore</strongs>, <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>I <strongs greek='1125'>wrote</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <em>I</em> did <em>it</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>for his <strongs greek='1752'>cause</strongs>that had done the <strongs greek='91'>wrong</strongs>, <strongs greek='3761'>nor</strongs>for his <strongs greek='1752'>cause</strongs>that suffered <strongs greek='91'>wrong</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>that <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4710'>care</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>in the <strongs greek='1799'>sight</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>might <strongs greek='5319'>appear</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1223 5124'>Therefore</strongs>we were <strongs greek='3870'>comforted</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>comfort</strongs>: yea, <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4056'>exceedingly</strongs>the <strongs greek='3123'>more</strongs><strongs greek='5463'>joyed</strongs>we <strongs greek='1909'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joy</strongs>of <strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>because</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>was <strongs greek='373'>refreshed</strongs><strongs greek='575'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs>if I have boasted any <strongs greek='1536 2744'>thing</strongs>to <strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, I am not <strongs greek='2617 3756'>ashamed</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>we <strongs greek='2980'>spake</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>to <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2746'>boasting</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs><em>I</em> <em>made</em> <strongs greek='1909'>before</strongs><strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>, is <strongs greek='1096'>found</strongs>a <strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs>inward <strongs greek='4698'>affection</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>more <strongs greek='4056'>abundant</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, whilst he <strongs greek='363'>remembereth</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5218'>obedience</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>how</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5401'>fear</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5156'>trembling</strongs>ye <strongs greek='1209'>received</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>I <strongs greek='5463'>rejoice</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>I have <strongs greek='2292'>confidence</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>things.</em> </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1161'>Moreover</strongs>, <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, we do you to <strongs greek='1107 5213'>wit</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1325'>bestowed</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>on</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>of <strongs greek='3109'>Macedonia</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>How <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>a <strongs greek='4183'>great</strongs><strongs greek='1382'>trial</strongs>of <strongs greek='2347'>affliction</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4050'>abundance</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='5479'>joy</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='899'>deep</strongs><strongs greek='4432'>poverty</strongs><strongs greek='4052'>abounded</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4149'>riches</strongs>of <strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='572'>liberality</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>to</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>, I bear <strongs greek='3140'>record</strongs>, yea, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>beyond</strongs><em>their</em> <strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs><em>they</em> <em>were</em> willing of <strongs greek='830'>themselves</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1189'>Praying</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>entreaty</strongs>that <strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs>would <strongs greek='1209'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>gift</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>take</em> <em>upon</em> <em>us</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2842'>fellowship</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministering</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><em>this</em> <em>they</em> <em>did,</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>we <strongs greek='1679'>hoped</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='4412'>first</strongs><strongs greek='1325'>gave</strongs>their own <strongs greek='1438'>selves</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='2307'>will</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Insomuch that <strongs greek='2248'>we</strongs><strongs greek='3870'>desired</strongs><strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>he had <strongs greek='4278'>begun</strongs>, <strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs>he would <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='2005'>finish</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>same</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='235'>Therefore</strongs>, <strongs greek='5618'>as</strongs>ye <strongs greek='4052'>abound</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><em>thing,</em> <em>in</em> <strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3056'>utterance</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1108'>knowledge</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>in</em> <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='4710'>diligence</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>in</em> <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>, <em>see</em> <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye <strongs greek='4052'>abound</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>I <strongs greek='3004'>speak</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2003'>commandment</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>by occasion <strongs greek='1223'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4710'>forwardness</strongs>of <strongs greek='2087'>others</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to <strongs greek='1381'>prove</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1103'>sincerity</strongs>of <strongs greek='5212'>your</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye <strongs greek='1097'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>, though he <strongs greek='5607'>was</strongs><strongs greek='4145'>rich</strongs>, yet for your <strongs greek='1223 5209'>sakes</strongs>he became <strongs greek='4433'>poor</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs>through <strongs greek='1565'>his</strongs><strongs greek='4432'>poverty</strongs>might be <strongs greek='4147'>rich</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='1722 5129'>herein</strongs>I <strongs greek='1325'>give</strongs><em>my</em> <strongs greek='1106'>advice</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>is <strongs greek='4851'>expedient</strongs>for <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='3748'>who</strongs>have begun <strongs greek='4278'>before</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs>to <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>to be <strongs greek='2309'>forward</strongs>a year <strongs greek='575 4070'>ago</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='*1161'></strongs><strongs greek='3570'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>therefore</strongs><strongs greek='2005'>perform</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4160'>doing</strongs><em>of</em> <em>it</em> ; <strongs greek='3704'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2509'>as</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs greek='4288'>readiness</strongs>to <strongs greek='2309'>will</strongs>, <strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><em>there</em> <em>may</em> <em>be</em> a <strongs greek='2005'>performance</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>out <strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs>that which ye <strongs greek='2192'>have</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs>there be <strongs greek='4295'>first</strongs>a willing <strongs greek='4288'>mind</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='2144'>accepted</strongs>according to <strongs greek='2526'>that</strongs>a <strongs greek='5100'>man</strongs><strongs greek='2192 1437'>hath</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>according to <strongs greek='2526'>that</strongs>he <strongs greek='2192'>hath</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><em>I</em> <em>mean</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>other <strongs greek='243'>men</strongs>be <strongs greek='425'>eased</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='2347'>burdened</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='235'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs>an <strongs greek='2471'>equality</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>at</strongs>this <strongs greek='2540'>time</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='4051'>abundance</strongs><em>may</em> <em>be</em> <em>a</em> <em>supply</em> <strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>their</strongs><strongs greek='5303'>want</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>their</strongs><strongs greek='4051'>abundance</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>may <strongs greek='1096'>be</strongs><em>a</em> <em>supply</em> <strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='5303'>want</strongs>: <strongs greek='3704'>that</strongs>there may <strongs greek='1096'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2471'>equality</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='2531'>As</strongs>it is <strongs greek='1125'>written</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>He</strongs>that <em>had</em> <em>gathered</em> <strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs>had nothing <strongs greek='4121 3756'>over</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>he</strongs>that <em>had</em> <em>gathered</em> <strongs greek='3641'>little</strongs>had no <strongs greek='1641 3756'>lack</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>thanks</strongs><em>be</em> to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, which <strongs greek='1325'>put</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs>earnest <strongs greek='4710'>care</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>of <strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3303'>indeed</strongs>he <strongs greek='1209'>accepted</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3874'>exhortation</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5225'>being</strongs>more <strongs greek='4707'>forward</strongs>, of his own <strongs greek='830'>accord</strongs>he <strongs greek='1831'>went</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs>we have <strongs greek='4842'>sent</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='1868'>praise</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>throughout</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>who was <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='5500'>chosen</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>to travel <strongs greek='4898'>with</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='4862'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>, which is <strongs greek='1247'>administered</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>declaration</em> <em>of</em> <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs>ready <strongs greek='4288'>mind</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='4724'>Avoiding</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>, that <strongs greek='3361'>no</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>man</strongs>should <strongs greek='3469'>blame</strongs><strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='100'>abundance</strongs>which is <strongs greek='1247'>administered</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>by</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Providing <strongs greek='4306'>for</strongs>honest <strongs greek='2570'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs>in the <strongs greek='1799'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>in the <strongs greek='1799'>sight</strongs>of <strongs greek='444'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs>we have sent <strongs greek='4842'>with</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>we have <strongs greek='4178'>oftentimes</strongs><strongs greek='1381 *5607'>proved</strongs><strongs greek='4705'>diligent</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>many <strongs greek='4183'>things</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3570'>now</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>much</strongs>more <strongs greek='4706'>diligent</strongs>, upon the <strongs greek='4183'>great</strongs><strongs greek='4006'>confidence</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>which</strongs><em>I</em> <em>have</em> <strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs greek='1535'>Whether</strongs><em>any</em> <em>do</em> <em>inquire</em> <strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>, <em>he</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='1699'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2844'>partner</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4904'>fellowhelper</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>concerning</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>: <strongs greek='1535'>or</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs><em>be</em> <em>inquired</em> <em>of,</em> <em>they</em> <em>are</em> the <strongs greek='652'>messengers</strongs>of the <strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>, <em>and</em> the <strongs greek='1391'>glory</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='3767'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs greek='1731'>show</strongs>ye <strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1519 4383'>before</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1732'>proof</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2746'>boasting</strongs>on your <strongs greek='5228 5216'>behalf</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>as <strongs greek='4012'>touching</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministering</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs>, it <strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='4053'>superfluous</strongs>for <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs>to <strongs greek='1125'>write</strongs>to <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>I <strongs greek='1492'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>forwardness of your <strongs greek='4288 5216'>mind</strongs>, for <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>I <strongs greek='2744'>boast</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>to them of <strongs greek='3110'>Macedonia</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='882'>Achaia</strongs>was <strongs greek='3903'>ready</strongs>a year <strongs greek='575 4070'>ago</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532 *1537'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2205'>zeal</strongs>hath <strongs greek='2042'>provoked</strongs>very <strongs greek='4119'>many</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1161'>Yet</strongs>have I <strongs greek='3992'>sent</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2745'>boasting</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>should be in <strongs greek='2758'>vain</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5129'>this</strongs><strongs greek='3313'>behalf</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>I <strongs greek='3004'>said</strongs>, ye may <strongs greek='5600'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3903'>ready</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Lest <strongs greek='3381'>haply</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs>they of <strongs greek='3110'>Macedonia</strongs><strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='4862'>with</strongs><strongs greek='1698'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2147'>find</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='532'>unprepared</strongs>, <strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>( <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>we <strongs greek='3004'>say</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>, ye) should <strongs greek='5210'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2617'>ashamed</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>this <strongs greek='5026'>same</strongs><strongs greek='5287'>confident</strongs><strongs greek='2746'>boasting</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='3767'>Therefore</strongs>I <strongs greek='2233'>thought</strongs>it <strongs greek='316'>necessary</strongs>to <strongs greek='3870'>exhort</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>they would go <strongs greek='4281'>before</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>make up <strongs greek='4294'>beforehand</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2129'>bounty</strongs>, whereof ye had notice <strongs greek='4293'>before</strongs>, that the <strongs greek='5026'>same</strongs>might <strongs greek='1511'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2092 *3779'>ready</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><em>a</em> <em>matter</em> <em>of</em> <strongs greek='2129'>bounty</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5618'>as</strongs><em>of</em> <strongs greek='4124'>covetousness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs><em>I</em> <em>say,</em> He which <strongs greek='4687'>soweth</strongs><strongs greek='5340'>sparingly</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2325'>reap</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='5340'>sparingly</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>he which <strongs greek='4687'>soweth</strongs><strongs greek='1909 2129'>bountifully</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2325'>reap</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1909 2129'>bountifully</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Every <strongs greek='1538'>man</strongs>according <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs>he <strongs greek='4255'>purposeth</strongs>in his <strongs greek='2588'>heart</strongs>, <em>so</em> <em>let</em> <em>him</em> <em>give</em> ; <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1537 3077'>grudgingly</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='318'>necessity</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='25'>loveth</strongs>a <strongs greek='2431'>cheerful</strongs><strongs greek='1395'>giver</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='1415'>able</strongs>to make all grace <strongs greek='4052 3956 5485'>abound</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>ye, <strongs greek='3842'>always</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='841'>sufficiency</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>things,</em> may <strongs greek='4052'>abound</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='18'>good</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>work</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'>( <strongs greek='2531'>As</strongs>it is <strongs greek='1125'>written</strongs>, He hath dispersed <strongs greek='4650'>abroad</strongs>; he hath <strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3993'>poor</strongs>: <strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs><strongs greek='3306'>remaineth</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>he that <strongs greek='2023'>ministereth</strongs><strongs greek='4690'>seed</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4687'>sower</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>both</strongs><strongs greek='5524'>minister</strongs><strongs greek='740'>bread</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><em>your</em> <strongs greek='1035'>food</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4129'>multiply</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs>seed <strongs greek='4703'>sown</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='837'>increase</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1081'>fruits</strongs>of <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Being <strongs greek='4148'>enriched</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>every <strongs greek='3956'>thing</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='572'>bountifulness</strongs>, <strongs greek='3748'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2716'>causeth</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>us</strongs><strongs greek='2169'>thanksgiving</strongs>to <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>administration</strongs>of <strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='3009'>service</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3440'>only</strongs><strongs greek='2076 4322'>supplieth</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5303'>want</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>is <strongs greek='4052'>abundant</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs><strongs greek='2169'>thanksgivings</strongs>unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='13'>While <strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1382'>experiment</strongs>of <strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>ministration</strongs>they <strongs greek='1392'>glorify</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>for <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3671'>professed</strongs><strongs greek='5292'>subjection</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>for <em>your</em> <strongs greek='572'>liberal</strongs><strongs greek='2842'>distribution</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='846'>them</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>men</em> ; </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>by <strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='1162'>prayer</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, which long <strongs greek='1971'>after</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5235'>exceeding</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='*1161'></strongs><strongs greek='5485'>Thanks</strongs><em>be</em> unto <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>for</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='411'>unspeakable</strongs><strongs greek='1431'>gift</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='3972'>Paul</strongs><strongs greek='846'>myself</strongs><strongs greek='3870'>beseech</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4236'>meekness</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1932'>gentleness</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>who</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4383'>presence</strongs><em>am</em> <strongs greek='5011'>base</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>among</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs>being <strongs greek='548'>absent</strongs>am <strongs greek='2292'>bold</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>I <strongs greek='1189'>beseech</strongs><em>you,</em> that I may <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs>be <strongs greek='2292'>bold</strongs>when I am <strongs greek='3918'>present</strongs>with that <strongs greek='4006'>confidence</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>wherewith</strongs>I <strongs greek='3049'>think</strongs>to be <strongs greek='5111'>bold</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>against</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs>, which <strongs greek='3049'>think</strongs>of <strongs greek='2248'>us</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>if we <strongs greek='4043'>walked</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>though we <strongs greek='4043'>walk</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>, we do <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4754'>war</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the <strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'>( <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3696'>weapons</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='4752'>warfare</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='4559'>carnal</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1415'>mighty</strongs>through <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs>the pulling <strongs greek='2506'>down</strongs>of <strongs greek='3794'>strongholds</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Casting <strongs greek='2507'>down</strongs><strongs greek='3053'>imaginations</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs>high <strongs greek='5313'>thing</strongs>that exalteth <strongs greek='1869'>itself</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>against</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1108'>knowledge</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>bringing into <strongs greek='163'>captivity</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='3540'>thought</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5218'>obedience</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>a <strongs greek='2092'>readiness</strongs>to <strongs greek='1556'>revenge</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3876'>disobedience</strongs>, <strongs greek='3752'>when</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='5218'>obedience</strongs>is <strongs greek='4137'>fulfilled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Do ye look <strongs greek='991'>on</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>things</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the outward <strongs greek='4383'>appearance</strongs>? If any <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs><strongs greek='3982'>trust</strongs>to <strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs>that he <strongs greek='1511'>is</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>'s, let him <strongs greek='575'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs><strongs greek='3049'>think</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>, <strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='846'>he</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>'s, <strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>'s. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1437 5037'>though</strongs>I should <strongs greek='2744'>boast</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>somewhat</strongs><strongs greek='4055'>more</strongs><strongs greek='4012'>of</strongs><strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='1849'>authority</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>hath <strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs><strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3619'>edification</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2506'>destruction</strongs>, I should <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>be <strongs greek='153'>ashamed</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='2443'>That</strongs>I may <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1380'>seem</strongs><strongs greek='5613 302'>as</strongs>if I would <strongs greek='1629'>terrify</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1992'>letters</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='3754'>For</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs greek='1992 *3303'>letters</strongs>, <strongs greek='5346'>say</strongs>they, <em>are</em> <strongs greek='926'>weighty</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2478'>powerful</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs greek='4983'>bodily</strongs><strongs greek='3952'>presence</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs greek='772'>weak</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>his</em> <strongs greek='3056'>speech</strongs><strongs greek='1848'>contemptible</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Let such a <strongs greek='5108'>one</strongs><strongs greek='3049'>think</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>, <strongs greek='3634'>such</strongs>as we <strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs>in <strongs greek='3056'>word</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1992'>letters</strongs>when we are <strongs greek='548'>absent</strongs>, <strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs><em>will</em> <em>we</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>in <strongs greek='2041'>deed</strongs>when we are <strongs greek='3918'>present</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we <strongs greek='5111'>dare</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>make ourselves of the <strongs greek='1469 1438'>number</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><strongs greek='4793'>compare</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>ourselves</strongs>with <strongs greek='5100'>some</strongs>that <strongs greek='4921'>commend</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>themselves</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='846'>they</strongs><strongs greek='3354'>measuring</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>themselves</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>themseves</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4793'>comparing</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>themselves</strongs>among <strongs greek='1438'>themselves</strongs>, are not <strongs greek='4920 3756'>wise</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>will <strongs greek='3780'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2744'>boast</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>of</strongs>things without <em>our</em> <strongs greek='280'>measure</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3358'>measure</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2583'>rule</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>hath <strongs greek='3307'>distributed</strongs>to <strongs greek='2254'>us</strongs>, a <strongs greek='3358'>measure</strongs>to <strongs greek='2185'>reach</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='891'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we stretch not ourselves <strongs greek='5239 3756 1438'>beyond</strongs><em>our</em> <em>measure,</em> as <strongs greek='5613'>though</strongs>we <strongs greek='2185'>reached</strongs><strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>we are <strongs greek='5348'>come</strongs>as far <strongs greek='891'>as</strongs>to <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><em>preaching</em> <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='3756'>Not</strongs><strongs greek='2744'>boasting</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>of</strongs>things without <em>our</em> <strongs greek='280'>measure</strongs>, <em>that</em> <em>is,</em> <strongs greek='1722'>of</strongs>other <strongs greek='245'>men</strongs>'s <strongs greek='2873'>labors</strongs>; <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2192'>having</strongs><strongs greek='1680'>hope</strongs>, when <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>is <strongs greek='837'>increased</strongs>, that we shall be <strongs greek='3170'>enlarged</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2583'>rule</strongs><strongs greek='1519 4050'>abundantly</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='16'>To preach the <strongs greek='2097'>gospel</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs>the <em>regions</em> <strongs greek='5238'>beyond</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>to <strongs greek='2744'>boast</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>another <strongs greek='245'>man</strongs>'s line of <strongs greek='2583'>things</strongs>made ready to our <strongs greek='1519 2092'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>he that <strongs greek='2744'>glorieth</strongs>, let him <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1565'>he</strongs>that <strongs greek='4921'>commendeth</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>himself</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='1384'>approved</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='4921'>commendeth</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='11'>
            <verse number='1'>Would to <strongs greek='3785'>God</strongs>ye could bear <strongs greek='430'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>me</strongs>a <strongs greek='3397'>little</strongs>in <em>my</em> <strongs greek='877'>folly</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>and</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>indeed</strongs>bear <strongs greek='430'>with</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>I am <strongs greek='2206'>jealous</strongs>over <strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>with <strongs greek='2316'>godly</strongs><strongs greek='2205'>jealousy</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>I have <strongs greek='718'>espoused</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>to <strongs greek='1520'>one</strongs><strongs greek='435'>husband</strongs>, that I may <strongs greek='3936'>present</strongs><em>you</em> <em>as</em> a <strongs greek='53'>chaste</strongs><strongs greek='3933'>virgin</strongs>to <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>I <strongs greek='5399'>fear</strongs>, lest by any <strongs greek='3381'>means</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3789'>serpent</strongs><strongs greek='1818'>beguiled</strongs><strongs greek='2096'>Eve</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>through</strongs><strongs greek='848'>his</strongs><strongs greek='3834'>subtlety</strongs>, <strongs greek='3779'>so</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3540'>minds</strongs>should be <strongs greek='5351'>corrupted</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='572'>simplicity</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>that</strongs>is <strongs greek='1519'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1487'>if</strongs>he that <strongs greek='2064'>cometh</strongs><strongs greek='2784'>preacheth</strongs><strongs greek='243'>another</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>we have <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2784'>preached</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><em>if</em> ye <strongs greek='2983'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='2087'>another</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>ye have <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs>, <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><strongs greek='2087'>another</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>ye have <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1209'>accepted</strongs>, ye might <strongs greek='2573'>well</strongs>bear <strongs greek='430'>with</strongs><em>him.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>I <strongs greek='3049'>suppose</strongs>I was not a whit <strongs greek='5302 3367'>behind</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>very <strongs greek='5228 3029'>chiefest</strongs><strongs greek='652'>apostles</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='1487 2532'>though</strongs><em>I</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='2399'>rude</strongs>in <strongs greek='3056'>speech</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>in <strongs greek='1108'>knowledge</strongs>; <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>we have been <strongs greek='1722 3956'>throughly</strongs>made <strongs greek='5319'>manifest</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>among</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='*2228'></strongs>Have I <strongs greek='4160'>committed</strongs>an <strongs greek='266'>offense</strongs>in <strongs greek='5013'>abasing</strongs><strongs greek='1683'>myself</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs>might be <strongs greek='5312'>exalted</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>because</strongs>I have <strongs greek='2097'>preached</strongs>to <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2098'>gospel</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1432'>freely</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='8'>I <strongs greek='4813'>robbed</strongs><strongs greek='243'>other</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>, <strongs greek='2983'>taking</strongs><strongs greek='3800'>wages</strongs><em>of</em> <em>them,</em> <strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs>do <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1248'>service</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>when I was <strongs greek='3918'>present</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5302'>wanted</strongs>, <strongs greek='*3756'>I</strongs>was <strongs greek='2655'>chargable</strongs>to no <strongs greek='3762'>man</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>that which was <strongs greek='5303'>lacking</strongs>to <strongs greek='3450'>me</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>which <strongs greek='2064'>came</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='3109'>Macedonia</strongs><strongs greek='4322'>supplied</strongs>: <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><em>things</em> I have <strongs greek='5083'>kept</strongs><strongs greek='1683'>myself</strongs>from being <strongs greek='4'>burdensome</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>so</em> will I <strongs greek='5083'>keep</strongs><em>myself.</em> </verse>
            <verse number='10'>As the <strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1698'>me</strongs>, no <strongs greek='*3754 3756'>man</strongs>shall <strongs greek='4972 *1519'>stop</strongs><strongs greek='1691'>me</strongs>of <strongs greek='3778'>this</strongs><strongs greek='2746'>boasting</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2824'>regions</strongs>of <strongs greek='882'>Achaia</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='1302'>Wherefore</strongs>? <strongs greek='3754'>because</strongs>I <strongs greek='25'>love</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>? <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1492'>knoweth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>what</strongs>I <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs>, that <strongs greek='*2532'>I</strongs>will <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>I may cut <strongs greek='1581'>off</strongs><strongs greek='874'>occasion</strongs>from them which <strongs greek='2309'>desire</strongs><strongs greek='874'>occasion</strongs>; <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1722 3739'>wherein</strongs>they <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>, they may be <strongs greek='2147'>found</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>even</strongs><strongs greek='2531'>as</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs><em>are</em> false <strongs greek='5570'>apostles</strongs>, <strongs greek='1386'>deceitful</strongs><strongs greek='2040'>workers</strongs>, transforming <strongs greek='3345'>themselves</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs>the <strongs greek='652'>apostles</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs><strongs greek='2298'>marvel</strongs>; <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='4567'>Satan</strongs><strongs greek='846'>himself</strongs>is <strongs greek='3345'>transformed</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs>an <strongs greek='32'>angel</strongs>of <strongs greek='5457'>light</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='3767'>Therefore</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs greek='3756'>no</strongs>great <strongs greek='3173'>thing</strongs><strongs greek='1499'>if</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='1249'>ministers</strongs>also be <strongs greek='3345'>transformed</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>the <strongs greek='1249'>ministers</strongs>of <strongs greek='1343'>righteousness</strongs>; <strongs greek='3739'>whose</strongs><strongs greek='5056'>end</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='846'>their</strongs><strongs greek='2041'>works</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>I <strongs greek='3004'>say</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, Let <strongs greek='3361'>no</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>man</strongs><strongs greek='1380'>think</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs><strongs greek='*1511'>a</strongs><strongs greek='878'>fool</strongs>; if <strongs greek='1490 1490'>otherwise</strongs>, <strongs greek='*2579'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs>a <strongs greek='878'>fool</strongs><strongs greek='1209'>receive</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>may <strongs greek='2744'>boast</strongs>myself a <strongs greek='3397 5100'>little</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs greek='3739'>That</strongs>which I <strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs>, I <strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs>the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>as it <strongs greek='5613'>were</strongs><strongs greek='1722 877'>foolishly</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='5287'>confidence</strongs>of <strongs greek='2746'>boasting</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Seeing <strongs greek='1893'>that</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs><strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>after</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>, I will glory <strongs greek='2504 2744'>also</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye <strongs greek='430'>suffer</strongs><strongs greek='878'>fools</strongs><strongs greek='2234'>gladly</strongs>, seeing ye <em>yourselves</em> <strongs greek='5607'>are</strongs><strongs greek='5429'>wise</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>ye <strongs greek='430'>suffer</strongs>, if a <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs>bring you into <strongs greek='2615 5209'>bondage</strongs>, if a <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs><strongs greek='2719'>devour</strongs><em>you,</em> if a <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>take</strongs><em>of</em> <em>you,</em> if a <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs>exalt <strongs greek='1869'>himself</strongs>, if a <strongs greek='1536'>man</strongs><strongs greek='1194'>smite</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>on</strongs>the <strongs greek='4383'>face</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>I <strongs greek='3004'>speak</strongs>as <strongs greek='2596'>concerning</strongs><strongs greek='819'>reproach</strongs>, <strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>though</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>had been <strongs greek='770'>weak</strongs>. <strongs greek='1161'>Howbeit</strongs><strongs greek='1722 3739 302'>whereinsoever</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs>is bold, <strongs greek='5111'>I</strongs>( <strongs greek='3004'>speak</strongs><strongs greek='1722 877'>foolishly</strongs>,) I am bold <strongs greek='2504 5111'>also</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs greek='1526'>Are</strongs>they <strongs greek='1445'>Hebrews</strongs>? so <em>am</em> <strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>. <strongs greek='1526'>Are</strongs>they <strongs greek='2475'>Israelites</strongs>? so <em>am</em> <strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>. <strongs greek='1526'>Are</strongs>they the <strongs greek='4690'>seed</strongs>of <strongs greek='11'>Abraham</strongs>? so <em>am</em> <strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs greek='1526'>Are</strongs>they <strongs greek='1249'>ministers</strongs>of Christ? <strongs greek='5547'>I</strongs>( <strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs>as a <strongs greek='3912'>fool</strongs>) <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><em>am</em> <strongs greek='5228'>more</strongs>; <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2873'>labors</strongs>more <strongs greek='4056'>abundant</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4127'>stripes</strongs>above <strongs greek='5234'>measure</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5438'>prisons</strongs>more <strongs greek='4056'>frequent</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='2288'>deaths</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>oft</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs greek='5259'>Of</strongs>the <strongs greek='2453'>Jews</strongs>five <strongs greek='3999'>times</strongs><strongs greek='2983'>received</strongs>I <strongs greek='5062'>forty</strongs><em>stripes</em> <strongs greek='3844'>save</strongs><strongs greek='3391'>one</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs greek='5151'>Thrice</strongs>was I beaten with <strongs greek='4463'>rods</strongs>, <strongs greek='530'>once</strongs>was I <strongs greek='3034'>stoned</strongs>, <strongs greek='5151'>thrice</strongs>I suffered <strongs greek='3489'>shipwreck</strongs>, a night and a <strongs greek='3574'>day</strongs>I have <strongs greek='4160'>been</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1037'>deep</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='26'><em>In</em> <strongs greek='3597'>journeyings</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>often</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs>of <strongs greek='4215'>waters</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs>of <strongs greek='3027'>robbers</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs><em>mine</em> <em>own</em> <strongs greek='1085'>countrymen</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='1484'>heathen</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4172'>city</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='2047'>wilderness</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='2281'>sea</strongs>, <em>in</em> <strongs greek='2794'>perils</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>among</strongs>false <strongs greek='5569'>brethren</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs greek='1722'>In</strongs><strongs greek='2873'>weariness</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3449'>painfulness</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='70'>watchings</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>often</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3042'>hunger</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1372'>thirst</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3521'>fastings</strongs><strongs greek='4178'>often</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5592'>cold</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1132'>nakedness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'><strongs greek='5565'>Beside</strongs>those things that are <strongs greek='3924'>without</strongs>, that which cometh <strongs greek='1999'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>me</strongs><strongs greek='2596 2250'>daily</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='3308'>care</strongs>of <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs greek='5101'>Who</strongs>is <strongs greek='770'>weak</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>I am not <strongs greek='770 3756'>weak</strongs>? <strongs greek='5101'>who</strongs>is <strongs greek='4624'>offended</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='4448'>burn</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='30'><strongs greek='1487'>If</strongs>I must <strongs greek='1163'>needs</strongs><strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>of the <strongs greek='3588'>things</strongs>which concern <strongs greek='3450'>mine</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmities</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs greek='3588'>The</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3962'>Father</strongs>of <strongs greek='2257'>our</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, which <strongs greek='5607'>is</strongs><strongs greek='2128'>blessed</strongs><strongs greek='1519 165'>forevermore</strongs>, <strongs greek='1492'>knoweth</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>I <strongs greek='5574'>lie</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'><strongs greek='1722'>In</strongs><strongs greek='1154'>Damascus</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1481'>governor</strongs>under <strongs greek='702'>Aretas</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='935'>king</strongs>kept the city of the Damascenes with a <strongs greek='5432 3588 4172 1153'>garrison</strongs>, <strongs greek='2309'>desirous</strongs>to <strongs greek='4084'>apprehend</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='33'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>through</strongs>a <strongs greek='2376'>window</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>a <strongs greek='4553'>basket</strongs>was I let <strongs greek='5465'>down</strongs><strongs greek='1223'>by</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5038'>wall</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1628'>escaped</strongs><strongs greek='846'>his</strongs><strongs greek='5495'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='12'>
            <verse number='1'>It is not <strongs greek='4851 3756'>expedient</strongs>for <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs><strongs greek='1211'>doubtless</strongs>to <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>. I <strongs greek='*1063'>will</strongs><strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3701'>visions</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='602'>revelations</strongs>of the <strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>I <strongs greek='1492'>knew</strongs>a <strongs greek='444'>man</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='4253'>above</strongs><strongs greek='1180'>fourteen</strongs><strongs greek='2094'>years</strongs>ago, ( <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, I cannot <strongs greek='1492 3756'>tell</strongs>; or <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs><strongs greek='1622'>out</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, I cannot <strongs greek='1492 3756'>tell</strongs>: <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1492'>knoweth</strongs>;) such a <strongs greek='5108'>one</strongs>caught <strongs greek='726'>up</strongs><strongs greek='2193'>to</strongs>the <strongs greek='5154'>third</strongs><strongs greek='3772'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>I <strongs greek='1492'>knew</strongs><strongs greek='5108'>such</strongs>a <strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>, ( <strongs greek='1535'>whether</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs>the <strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, <strongs greek='1535'>or</strongs><strongs greek='1622'>out</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4983'>body</strongs>, I cannot <strongs greek='1492 3756'>tell</strongs>: <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1492'>knoweth</strongs>;) </verse>
            <verse number='4'>How <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>he was caught <strongs greek='726'>up</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>into</strongs><strongs greek='3857'>paradise</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='191'>heard</strongs><strongs greek='731'>unspeakable</strongs><strongs greek='4487'>words</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>it is not <strongs greek='1832 3756'>lawful</strongs>for a <strongs greek='444'>man</strongs>to <strongs greek='2980'>utter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='5228'>Of</strongs>such a <strongs greek='5108'>one</strongs>will I <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>yet</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1683'>myself</strongs>I will <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>, <strongs greek='1508'>but</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>mine</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmities</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='1437'>though</strongs>I would <strongs greek='2309'>desire</strongs>to <strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs>, I shall <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs>a <strongs greek='878'>fool</strongs>; <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>I will <strongs greek='2046'>say</strongs>the <strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><em>now</em> I <strongs greek='5339'>forbear</strongs>, <strongs greek='3361'>lest</strongs>any <strongs greek='5100'>man</strongs>should <strongs greek='3049'>think</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1691'>me</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>above</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>that</strongs>which he <strongs greek='991'>seeth</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be,</em> <strongs greek='2228'>or</strongs><em>that</em> he <strongs greek='191 *5100'>heareth</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>of</strongs><strongs greek='1700'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs><strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>I should be exalted above <strongs greek='5229'>measure</strongs>through <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5236'>abundance</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='602'>revelations</strongs>, there was <strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs>to <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs>a <strongs greek='4647'>thorn</strongs>in <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4561'>flesh</strongs>, the <strongs greek='32'>messenger</strongs>of <strongs greek='4566'>Satan</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2852'>buffet</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>I should be exalted above <strongs greek='5229'>measure</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='5228'>For</strongs>this <strongs greek='5127'>thing</strongs>I <strongs greek='3870'>besought</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='5151'>thrice</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs>it might <strongs greek='868'>depart</strongs><strongs greek='575'>from</strongs><strongs greek='1700'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='2532'>And</strongs>he <strongs greek='2046'>said</strongs>unto <strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs>, <em>My</em> <em>grace</em> <em>is sufficient</em> <em>for</em> <em>thee:</em> <em>for</em> <em>my</em> <em>strength</em> <em>is</em> <em>made perfect</em> <em>in</em> <em>weakness.</em> Most <strongs greek='2236'>gladly</strongs><strongs greek='3767'>therefore</strongs>will I <strongs greek='3123'>rather</strongs><strongs greek='2744'>glory</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmities</strongs>, <strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>may <strongs greek='1981'>rest</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>upon</strongs><strongs greek='1691'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1352'>Therefore</strongs>I take <strongs greek='2106'>pleasure</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='769'>infirmities</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5196'>reproaches</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='318'>necessities</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1375'>persecutions</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4730'>distresses</strongs>for Christ's <strongs greek='5228 5547'>sake</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3752'>when</strongs>I am <strongs greek='770'>weak</strongs>, <strongs greek='5119'>then</strongs><strongs greek='1510'>am</strongs>I <strongs greek='1415'>strong</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>I am <strongs greek='1096'>become</strongs>a <strongs greek='878'>fool</strongs>in <strongs greek='2744'>glorying</strongs>; <strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs>have <strongs greek='315'>compelled</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='3784'>ought</strongs>to have been <strongs greek='4921'>commended</strongs><strongs greek='5259'>of</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>in <strongs greek='3762'>nothing</strongs>am I <strongs greek='5302'>behind</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>very <strongs greek='5228 3029'>chiefest</strongs><strongs greek='652'>apostles</strongs>, <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>I <strongs greek='1510'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3762'>nothing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='3303'>Truly</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4592'>signs</strongs>of an <strongs greek='652'>apostle</strongs>were <strongs greek='2716'>wrought</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>among</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='5281'>patience</strongs>, <strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='4592'>signs</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5059'>wonders</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>mighty <strongs greek='1411'>deeds</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='5101'>what</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs>it <strongs greek='3739'>wherein</strongs>ye were <strongs greek='2274'>inferior</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3062'>other</strongs><strongs greek='1577'>churches</strongs>, <strongs greek='1508'>except</strongs><em>it</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs><strongs greek='846'>myself</strongs>was not <strongs greek='2655 3756'>burdensome</strongs>to <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>? <strongs greek='5483'>forgive</strongs><strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs><strongs greek='5026'>this</strongs><strongs greek='93'>wrong</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='2400'>Behold</strongs>, the third <strongs greek='5154'>time</strongs>I <strongs greek='2192'>am</strongs><strongs greek='2093'>ready</strongs>to <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>I will <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>be <strongs greek='2655'>burdensome</strongs>to <strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs>I <strongs greek='2212'>seek</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>yours</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>: <strongs greek='1063'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5043'>children</strongs><strongs greek='3784'>ought</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>to lay <strongs greek='2343'>up</strongs>for <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1118'>parents</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1118'>parents</strongs>for <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='5043'>children</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs greek='1161'>And</strongs><strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs>will very <strongs greek='2236'>gladly</strongs><strongs greek='1159'>spend</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>be <strongs greek='1550'>spent</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>; <strongs greek='1499'>though</strongs>the more <strongs greek='4056'>abundantly</strongs>I <strongs greek='25'>love</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, the <strongs greek='2276'>less</strongs>I be <strongs greek='25'>loved</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs><strongs greek='2077'>be</strongs>it so, <strongs greek='1473'>I</strongs>did <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2599'>burden</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>: <strongs greek='235'>nevertheless</strongs>, <strongs greek='5225'>being</strongs><strongs greek='3835'>crafty</strongs>, I <strongs greek='2983'>caught</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>with <strongs greek='1388'>guile</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Did <strongs greek='*1223 846'>I</strongs>make a <strongs greek='4122'>gain</strongs>of <strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='*3361'>by</strongs><strongs greek='5100'>any</strongs>of them <strongs greek='3739'>whom</strongs>I <strongs greek='649'>sent</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>unto</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>I <strongs greek='3870'>desired</strongs><strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>with <em>him</em> I <strongs greek='4882'>sent</strongs>a <strongs greek='80'>brother</strongs>. <strongs greek='*3387'>Did</strongs><strongs greek='5103'>Titus</strongs>make a <strongs greek='4122'>gain</strongs>of <strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>? <strongs greek='4043'>walked</strongs>we <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>in <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>spirit</strongs>? <em>walked</em> <em>we</em> <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>in <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='846'>same</strongs><strongs greek='2487'>steps</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs greek='3825'>Again</strongs>, <strongs greek='1380'>think</strongs>ye <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>we excuse <strongs greek='626'>ourselves</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>? we <strongs greek='2980'>speak</strongs><strongs greek='2714'>before</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>but</strongs><em>we</em> <em>do</em> all <strongs greek='3956'>things</strongs>, dearly <strongs greek='27'>beloved</strongs>, <strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='3619'>edifying</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>I <strongs greek='5399'>fear</strongs>, <strongs greek='3381'>lest</strongs>when I <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs>, I shall <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2147'>find</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3634'>such</strongs>as I <strongs greek='2309'>would</strongs>, and <em>that</em> <strongs greek='2504'>I</strongs>shall be <strongs greek='2147'>found</strongs>unto <strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>such <strongs greek='3634'>as</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2309'>would</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>: <strongs greek='3381'>lest</strongs><em>there</em> <em>be</em> <strongs greek='2054'>debates</strongs>, <strongs greek='2205'>envyings</strongs>, <strongs greek='2372'>wraths</strongs>, <strongs greek='2052'>strifes</strongs>, <strongs greek='2636'>backbitings</strongs>, <strongs greek='5587'>whisperings</strongs>, <strongs greek='5450'>swellings</strongs>, <strongs greek='181'>tumults</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='21'><em>And</em> <strongs greek='3361'>lest</strongs>, when I <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, <strongs greek='3450'>my</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>will <strongs greek='5013'>humble</strongs><strongs greek='3165'>me</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>among</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><em>that</em> I shall <strongs greek='3996'>bewail</strongs><strongs greek='4183'>many</strongs>which have sinned <strongs greek='4258'>already</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>have <strongs greek='3361'>not</strongs><strongs greek='3340'>repented</strongs><strongs greek='1909'>of</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='167'>uncleanness</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4202'>fornication</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='766'>lasciviousness</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs>they have <strongs greek='4238'>committed</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='13'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs greek='5124'>This</strongs><em>is</em> the third <em>time</em> I am <strongs greek='2064'>coming</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. <strongs greek='1909'>In</strongs>the <strongs greek='4750'>mouth</strongs>of <strongs greek='1417'>two</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>or</strongs><strongs greek='5140'>three</strongs><strongs greek='3144'>witnesses</strongs>shall <strongs greek='3956'>every</strongs><strongs greek='4487'>word</strongs>be <strongs greek='2476'>established</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>I told you <strongs greek='4280'>before</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='4302'>foretell</strongs>you, as <strongs greek='5613'>if</strongs>I were <strongs greek='3918'>present</strongs>, <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs>second <strongs greek='1208'>time</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>being <strongs greek='548'>absent</strongs><strongs greek='3568'>now</strongs>I <strongs greek='1125'>write</strongs>to them which heretofore have <strongs greek='4258'>sinned</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs>to <strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs><strongs greek='3062'>other</strongs>, <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>, <strongs greek='1437'>if</strongs>I <strongs greek='2064'>come</strongs><strongs greek='3825'>again</strongs>, I will <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='5339'>spare</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs greek='1893'>Since</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2212'>seek</strongs>a <strongs greek='1382'>proof</strongs>of <strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2980'>speaking</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='1698'>me</strongs>, <strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>-ward is not <strongs greek='770 3756'>weak</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>is <strongs greek='1414'>mighty</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2532 1487'>though</strongs>he was <strongs greek='4717'>crucified</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>through</strongs><strongs greek='769'>weakness</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>yet</strongs>he <strongs greek='2198'>liveth</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>. <strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>are <strongs greek='770'>weak</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs>we shall <strongs greek='2198'>live</strongs><strongs greek='4862'>with</strongs><strongs greek='846'>him</strongs><strongs greek='1537'>by</strongs>the <strongs greek='1411'>power</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>toward</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs greek='3985'>Examine</strongs><strongs greek='1438'>yourselves</strongs>, <strongs greek='1487'>whether</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2075'>be</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='4102'>faith</strongs>; <strongs greek='1381'>prove</strongs>your own <strongs greek='1438'>selves</strongs>. <strongs greek='1921'>Know</strongs>ye <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs>your own <strongs greek='1438'>selves</strongs>, how <strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs><strongs greek='2076'>is</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>in</strongs><strongs greek='5213'>you</strongs>, <strongs greek='1509'>except</strongs>ye <strongs greek='2075'>be</strongs><strongs greek='96'>reprobates</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs greek='1161'>But</strongs>I <strongs greek='1679'>trust</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs>ye shall <strongs greek='1097'>know</strongs><strongs greek='3754'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='2070'>are</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='96'>reprobates</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs greek='1161'>Now</strongs>I <strongs greek='2172'>pray</strongs><strongs greek='4314'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>that <strongs greek='5209 *3361'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs><strongs greek='3367'>no</strongs><strongs greek='2556'>evil</strongs>; <strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>should <strongs greek='5316'>appear</strongs><strongs greek='1384'>approved</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='2443'>that</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs>should <strongs greek='4160'>do</strongs>that which is <strongs greek='2570'>honest</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>though</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs><strongs greek='5600'>be</strongs><strongs greek='5613'>as</strongs><strongs greek='96'>reprobates</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we can <strongs greek='1410'>do</strongs><strongs greek='5100 3756'>nothing</strongs><strongs greek='2596'>against</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>, <strongs greek='235'>but</strongs><strongs greek='5228'>for</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='225'>truth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs greek='1063'>For</strongs>we are <strongs greek='5463'>glad</strongs>, <strongs greek='3752'>when</strongs><strongs greek='2249'>we</strongs>are <strongs greek='770'>weak</strongs>, <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5210'>ye</strongs><strongs greek='5600'>are</strongs><strongs greek='1415'>strong</strongs>: <strongs greek='1161'>and</strongs><strongs greek='5124'>this</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>also</strongs>we <strongs greek='2172'>wish</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs greek='5216'>your</strongs><strongs greek='2676'>perfection</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs greek='1223 5124'>Therefore</strongs>I <strongs greek='1125'>write</strongs>these <strongs greek='5023'>things</strongs>being <strongs greek='548'>absent</strongs>, <strongs greek='3363'>lest</strongs>being <strongs greek='3918'>present</strongs>I should <strongs greek='5530'>use</strongs><strongs greek='664'>sharpness</strongs>, <strongs greek='2596'>according</strongs>to <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='1849'>power</strongs><strongs greek='3739'>which</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs>hath <strongs greek='1325'>given</strongs><strongs greek='3427'>me</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='3619'>edification</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3756'>not</strongs><strongs greek='1519'>to</strongs><strongs greek='2506'>destruction</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs greek='3063'>Finally</strongs>, <strongs greek='80'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs greek='5463'>farewell</strongs>. Be <strongs greek='2675'>perfect</strongs>, be of good <strongs greek='3870'>comfort</strongs>, be of one <strongs greek='5426 846'>mind</strongs>, live in <strongs greek='1514'>peace</strongs>; <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>of <strongs greek='26'>love</strongs><strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='1515'>peace</strongs>shall <strongs greek='2071'>be</strongs><strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs greek='782'>Greet</strongs>one <strongs greek='240'>another</strongs><strongs greek='1722'>with</strongs>a <strongs greek='40'>holy</strongs><strongs greek='5370'>kiss</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs greek='3956'>All</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>saints</strongs><strongs greek='782'>salute</strongs><strongs greek='5209'>you</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs greek='3588'>The</strongs><strongs greek='5485'>grace</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2962'>Lord</strongs><strongs greek='2424'>Jesus</strongs><strongs greek='5547'>Christ</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='26'>love</strongs>of <strongs greek='2316'>God</strongs>, <strongs greek='2532'>and</strongs><strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='2842'>communion</strongs>of <strongs greek='3588'>the</strongs><strongs greek='40'>Holy</strongs><strongs greek='4151'>Ghost</strongs>, <em>be</em> <strongs greek='3326'>with</strongs><strongs greek='5216'>you</strongs><strongs greek='3956'>all</strongs>. <strongs greek='281'>Amen</strongs>. </verse>
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