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and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said--`I will dwell in them, and will walk among them , and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

but He who is comforting the cast-down--God--He did comfort us in the presence of Titus;

If, then, I also wrote to you--not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God--

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,

in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,

because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and for the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,

and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;

thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's;

and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us--to reach even unto you;

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

The sin did I do--myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--who is blessed to the ages--hath known that I do not lie! --

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

and I have known such a man--whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --