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for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

and he who is boasting--in the Lord let him boast;

for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept--well were ye bearing it ,

The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

ministrants of Christ are they? --as beside myself I speak--I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

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

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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;

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

because of this, these things--being absent--I write, that being present, I may not treat any sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you all! Amen.

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;