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Some people respect us and some do not. Some give us a good name and some a bad name. Some people say we fool people and yet we tell the truth.

Many people do not know us, and yet many people know us very well. We almost die and yet we live. People give us much trouble but they do not kill us. We are very sad and yet always glad.

10 We are poor, but we make many people rich. We have nothing, but really we have everything.

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through honor and dishonor; through ill repute and good repute; perceived[a] as deceivers and yet true, as unknown and yet well-known, as dying and yet—as you see—very much alive, as punished and yet not killed, 10 as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor and yet enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 6:8 The Gk. lacks perceived