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1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or

1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow. 2 For if

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of

1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not: 2 but we have renounced

1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in

1 And working together `with him’ we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain 2

1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God,