15 (A)I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If (B)I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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15 So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.(A) If I love you more,(B) will you love me less?

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So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God (A)but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

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so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God(A) but our lives as well.(B)

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17 Even if I am to be (A)poured out as a drink offering upon (B)the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

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17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering(A) on the sacrifice(B) and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.(C)

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(A)If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

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If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation;(A) if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

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10 Therefore (A)I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain (B)the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with (C)eternal glory.

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10 Therefore I endure everything(A) for the sake of the elect,(B) that they too may obtain the salvation(C) that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.(D)

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Paul's Ministry to the Church

24 Now (A)I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh (B)I am filling up (C)what is lacking in Christ's afflictions (D)for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

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Paul’s Labor for the Church

24 Now I rejoice(A) in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions,(B) for the sake of his body, which is the church.(C)

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And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, (A)for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

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I wrote as I did,(A) so that when I came I would not be distressed(B) by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence(C) in all of you, that you would all share my joy.

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17 Obey (A)your leaders and submit to them, (B)for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to (C)give an account. (D)Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

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17 Have confidence in your leaders(A) and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you(B) as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

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12 You are not restricted by us, but (A)you are restricted in your own affections. 13 (B)In return (I speak (C)as to children) widen your hearts also.

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12 We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. 13 As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children(A)—open wide your hearts(B) also.

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14 Here (A)for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for (B)I seek not what is yours but you. For (C)children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but (D)parents for their children.

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14 Now I am ready to visit you for the third time,(A) and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents,(B) but parents for their children.(C)

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But he said to me, (A)“My grace is sufficient for you, for (B)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that (C)the power of Christ may rest upon me.

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But he said to me, “My grace(A) is sufficient for you, for my power(B) is made perfect in weakness.(C)(D) Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

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I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that (A)you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

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I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts(A) that we would live or die with you.

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14 just as you did (A)partially understand us—that (B)on the day of our Lord Jesus (C)you will boast of us as (D)we will boast of you.

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14 as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.(A)

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