Phil. ii. 30.

Eph. vi. 24.

Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to minister to the saints; I beseech you that ye submit yourselves 16 to such, and to every one who helpeth in the work and laboureth.

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and 17 Fortunatus and Achaicus; for, that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. For they 18 refreshed my spirit and yours; such, therefore, acknowledge.

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and 19 Prisca, together with the church which is in their house, salute you heartily in the Lord. All 20 the brethren salute you. Salute ye one another with a holy kiss.

THE salutation of me Paul with my own hand. 21 If any one loves not the Lord, let him be Ana- 22 thema (a). Maranatha (b). The grace of the 23 Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you 24 all in Christ Jesus.

(a) Or Accursed, or devoted to destruction.

(b) Or The Lord cometh (or has come), Or Come, Lord!

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THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE

CORINTHIANS

PAUL

an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will Tim. i. 1. of GOD, and Timothy our brother, to the church of GOD which is in Corinth, with all the 2 saints who are in all Achaia: Grace to you and peace from GOD our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Blessed be the GOD and Father of our Lord Eph. i. 3. Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and GoD of

4 all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, through the comfort where

5 with we ourselves are comforted by GOD.

For,

as the sufferings of Christ abound towards us, Col. i. 24. so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your consolation, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings

7 which we also suffer. And our hope in your Rom. viii. 17. behalf is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are par

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takers of the sufferings, so ye will be also of the consolation.

We would not have you ignorant, brethren,

of our trouble which came to pass in Asia, that Acts xix. 23. we were exceedingly pressed, above our strength, 9 insomuch that we despaired even of life; yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might trust not in ourselves but in GoD IO who raiseth the dead; who delivered us from so 2 Pet. ii. 8. great a death, and will deliver; in whom we trust II that He will yet deliver us, ye also working together for us by your supplication, that for the gift obtained for us by many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of Cor. ii. 4. our conscience, that in holiness and God-given

Phil. iv. 1.

2 Cor. x. 2.

Mark i. I.

Eph. i. 13.

2 Cor. i. 23.

I Cor. xi. 2.

sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace
of GOD, we behaved ourselves in the world, and
more abundantly towards you. For we write 13
no other things to you than those which ye read
or acknowledge; and I trust ye will acknow-
ledge them even to the end; as also ye acknow- 14
ledged us in part, that we are your glorying, even
as ye also will be ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.

And in this confidence I was minded to come 15
to you before, that ye might have a second
benefit and through you to pass into Macedonia; 16
and to come back from Macedonia to you, and
by you to be set forward on my way towards
Judæa. When therefore I was thus minded, did 17
I show levity? or the things which I purpose, do
I purpose according to the flesh, that with me
there should be Yea yea, and Nay nay? But as 18
GOD is faithful, our message to you is not Yea
and Nay. For the Son of GOD, Christ Jesus, 19
who was preached among you by us, even by me
and Silvanus and Timothy, did not prove to be
Yea and Nay; but in him Yea has come to pass.
For all the promises of Gop have their Yea in 20
him; wherefore also through him is the Amen,
to the glory of GoD through us.
Now He who 21
establisheth us with you in Christ and anointed
us, is GOD; who also sealed us, and gave the 22
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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BUT unto my soul I call GOD as a witness 23 that, to spare you, I came not again to Corinth, Not that we exercise lordship over your faith, 24 but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith ye stand. But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. For if I grieve you, who is there to make me glad, but he who is grieved by me? And I wrote this very thing, lest when I came, I should have sorrow from those on whose account 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 ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the more abundant love which I have for you.

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But if any one hath caused grief, he hath Gal. iv. 12. caused it, not to me, but in part (that I press 6 not too heavily) to you all. Sufficient to such a one is the punishment inflicted by the many. 7 So that on the contrary ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up by his over8 much grief. Wherefore I beseech you to assure 9 him of your love. For to this end also I wrote,

that I might prove you, whether ye are obedient 10 in all things. But whom ye forgive in any 2 Cor. vii. 15. thing, I also forgive; for if I have forgiven any thing, I have forgiven it for your sakes, in the

II presence of Christ; lest Satan should get an advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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Now, when I went to Troas to preach the Acts. xvi. 8. gospel of Christ, not a door was opened unto me 13 by the Lord; I had no ease in my spirit, because I found not my brother Titus; but, taking my leave of them, I went thence into Macedonia.

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BUT thanks be to GOD, who always leadeth Rom. viii. 37. us in triumph in Christ, and through us maketh manifest in every place the savour of the know15 ledge of him. For we are to GoD a sweet savour

of Christ, in those who are being saved, and in John ix. 39. 16 those who are perishing; to the one we are a

savour from death unto death; and to the other a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient 17 for these things? For we do not, as the many, make a base traffic of the word of GOD; but as from sincerity, but as from God in the sight of GOD, we speak in Christ.

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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? 2 Cor. v. 12.
or need we, as some may, epistles of commenda-
tion to you or from you?

2 YE are our epistle, written in our hearts,
3 known and read by all men; manifestly declared
to be an epistle of Christ; an epistle set forth
through us, written, not with ink, but with the
Spirit of the Living God; not on tablets of stone, Ex. xxiv. 12.
4 but on hearts, even tablets of flesh. And such

Phil. ii. 30.

Eph. vi. 24

Stephanas is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to minister to the saints; I beseech you that ye submit yourselves 16 to such, and to every one who helpeth in the work and laboureth.

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and 17 Fortunatus and Achaicus; for, that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. For they 18 refreshed my spirit and yours; such, therefore, acknowledge.

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and 19 Prisca, together with the church which is in their house, salute you heartily in the Lord. All 20 the brethren salute you. Salute ye one another with a holy kiss.

THE salutation of me Paul with my own hand. 21 If any one loves not the Lord, let him be Ana- 22 thema (a). Maranatha (b). The grace of the 23 Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you 24 all in Christ Jesus.

(a) Or Accursed, or devoted to destruction.

(b) Or The Lord cometh (or has come), Or Come, Lord!