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I hope you can agree that I have stood that test and truly belong to the Lord.

I pray that you will live good lives, not because that will be a feather in our caps,[a] proving that what we teach is right; no, for we want you to do right even if we ourselves are despised. Our responsibility is to encourage the right at all times, not to hope for evil.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 13:7 not because that will be a feather in our caps, literally, “not that we may appear approved.”
  2. 2 Corinthians 13:8 Our responsibility is . . . not to hope for evil, literally, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”

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