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who has put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
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and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets that are human hearts.
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who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory?
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
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But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and therefore we also speak,
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The one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a down payment.
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in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love,
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Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
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For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
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I urged Titus to go and sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves with the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps?
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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.