ALPHA

2 Corinthians

Chapter 1

	Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
2.	Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
3.	Blessed is God, even the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4.	Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort that we ourselves are comforted by God.
5.	For as the sufferings of Christ abounds in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.
6.	And whether we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or whether we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
7.	And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you also be of the consolation.
8.	For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, in so much that we despaired even of life.
9.	But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead:
10.	Who delivered us from so great a death, and delivers; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
11.	You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
12.	For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
13.	For we write no other things to you than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;
14.	As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the LORD Jesus.
15.	And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit;
16.	And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
17.	When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
18.	But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
19.	For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20.	For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen,to the glory of God by us.
21.	Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God;
22.	Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23.	Moreover, I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth.
24.	Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

Chapter 2

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
For if I make you sorry, then who is he that makes me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?
And I wrote the same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.
But if any has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not overcharge you all.
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted by many.
So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.
Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
For to this end also I wrote, that I might know your proof, whether you are obedient in all things.
To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also. For if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ;
Lest Satan should get an advantage over us, for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,
I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.
Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
For we are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;
To the one we are the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Chapter 3

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men,
For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
And such trust we have through Christ to God-ward:
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away,
How shall the ministration of the spirit not be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels.
For if that which is done away with was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech,
And not as Moses, who put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished,
But their minds were blinded, for until this day the same vail remains, untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But even to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But we all, with an open face beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Chapter 4

Therefore, seeing that we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint,
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
But if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to them who are lost;
In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.
For we do not preach of ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.
We are troubled on every side, yet are not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
For we who live are alway delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
So then death works in us, but life in you.
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore I have spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
For which cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Chapter 5

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.
If it is so that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened. Not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by life.
Now he that has wrought us for the same thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
(For we walk by faith, not by sight).
We are confident, I say, and rather willing to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Therefore we labor, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.
Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have something to answer them who glory in appearance, and not in heart.
For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God, or whether we are sober, it is for your cause.
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge that if one died for all, then all were dead;
And that he died for all, that they which live should not live to themselves from now on, but to him who died for them, and rose again.
Therefore from now on, we know no man after the flesh. Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet from now on know we him no more.
Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God beseeched you by us. We pray for you in Christ's stead, so you are reconciled to God.
For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Chapter 6

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain
(For he says, "I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation).
Giving no offence in anything, that the ministry is not blamed:
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Oh, you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
You are not restricted in us, but you are restricted in your own bowels.
Now for a compensation in the same (I speak as to my children), be also enlarged.
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light with darkness?
And what agreement has Christ with evil? Or what part has he that believes with an infidel?
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Therefore come out from among them, and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
And will be a Fatherto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters," says the LORD Almighty.

Chapter 7

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die and live with you.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you. I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; outside were fightings, inside were fears.
Nevertheless, God, who comforts those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation that he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent, for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it was but for a season.
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance. For you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might receive damage by us in nothing.
For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world works death.
For behold this selfsame thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort. What carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort. Yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we were for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed; but as we speak all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.
I therefore rejoice that I have confidence in you in all things.

Chapter 8

Moreover, brethren, we want you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
How in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing by themselves;
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace.
Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
And here I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
Now, therefore, perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you have.
For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to that he does not have.
For I do not mean that other men are eased, and you burdened,
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want, that there may be equality;
As it is written, "He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack."
But thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, he went to you of his own accord.
And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
And not that only, but who was also chosen by the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind,
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us,
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the LORD, but also in the sight of men.
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
Whether any inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you; or our brethren is inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
Therefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Chapter 9

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.
Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready,
Lest by chance if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we not say, "you") should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which you had notice of before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
But this I say, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.
Every man according as he has purpose in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work
(As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever).
Now he that ministers seed to the sower both ministers bread for your food, and multiplies your seed that is sown, and increases the fruits of your righteousness,
Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causes thanksgiving to God through us.
For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings to God;
While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distributionto them, and to all men;
And by their prayer for you, which long for you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Chapter 10

Now I, Paul myself, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am humble among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, which I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh,
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds);
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
And having in a readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Do you look at things after the outward appearance? If any man trusts to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
For though I should boast some more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed,
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
"For his letters," say they, "are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."
Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves, but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.
For we do not stretch ourselves beyond our measure, as though we did not reach to you, for we have come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ;
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
But he that glories, let him glory in the LORD.
For he that commends himself is not approved, but whom the LORD commends.

Chapter 11

Would to God that you could bear with me a little in my folly; and indeed bear with me.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy, for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
But though I am rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
I robbed other churches, taking wages from them, to do you service.
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man, for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them who desire occasion; that in where they glory, they may be found even as we.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it was foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
For you suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man exalts himself, if a man smites you on the face.
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Hhowever in whatever way any is bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in more abundant labors, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
Three times I was beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I suffered shipwrecks, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
In weariness and painfulness, often in watchings, in hunger and thirst, often in fastings, in cold and nakedness.
Besides those things that are outside, that comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?
If I must glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knows that I do not lie.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me,
And I was let down by the wall through a window in a basket, and escaped his hands.

Chapter 12

It is doubtlessly not expedient for me to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows); such a one caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows);
How he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Of such a one I will glory; yet of myself I will not glory, except in my infirmities.
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake, for when I am weak, then am I strong.
I have become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing I am behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
For what is it in where you were inferior to other churches, except it is that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
But be it so, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?
I desired Titus, and I sent a brother with him. Did Titus make a gain from you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?
Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not, lest there are debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Chapter 13

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who have sinned before, and to all others, that if I come again, I will not spare.
Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.
Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we are as reprobates.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong; and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss.
All the saints salute you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, are with you all. Amen.

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