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Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!

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10 you have made them a kingdom and priests serving[a] our God,
    and they will reign[b] on earth.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.10 Gk priests to
  2. 5.10 Other ancient authorities read they reign

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.(A)

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for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind—

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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly;[a] do not claim to be wiser than you are.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.16 Or give yourselves to humble tasks

17 For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.(A)

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11 The saying is sure:

If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he will also deny us;(A)

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Timothy’s Encouraging Report

But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought us the good news of your faith and love. He has told us also that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, just as we long to see you.(A) For this reason, brothers and sisters, during all our distress and persecution we have been encouraged about you through your faith. For we now live, if you continue to stand firm in the Lord. How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you?

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19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?(A) 20 Yes, you are our glory and joy!

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Shining as Lights in the World

12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,(A)

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27 Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel

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For we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong. This is what we pray for, that you may be restored.(A)

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Paul and the False Apostles

11 I wish you would put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, do put up[a] with me!(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.1 Or But indeed you do put up

Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A)

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18 But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.

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On Divisions in the Corinthian Church

And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.(A) I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,(B)

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For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.(A)

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29 Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today might become such as I am—except for these chains.”(A)

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29 I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.(A) 30 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.

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25 “Woe to you who are full now,
    for you will be hungry.
“Woe to you who are laughing now,
    for you will mourn and weep.(A)

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51 He has shown strength with his arm;
    he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.(A)
52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones
    and lifted up the lowly;(B)
53 he has filled the hungry with good things
    and sent the rich away empty.(C)

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and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord fulfill the words that you have prophesied and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord and all the exiles.(A)

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21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
    and shrewd in their own sight!(A)

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14 Like clouds and wind without rain
    is one who boasts of a gift never given.(A)

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Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing;
    others pretend to be poor yet have great wealth.(A)

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