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I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.
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Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,
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I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
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Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
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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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Present Weakness and Resurrection Life
Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.
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It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak,
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
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Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
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For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
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We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
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What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
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What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
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Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
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Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
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For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
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Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.
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Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.
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There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord’s people.
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Paul’s Vision and His Thorn
I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
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or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
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But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
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For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
