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Exhortation to steadfastness. which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

47 The first man is of the earth, dearthy: the second man is the Lord e from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: fand as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that i flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

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52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: m for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be chang

ed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

55 P O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

-57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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f Ac. 15.3. d Ge.2.7.& & 17.15. & 3. 19. 21. 5. Ro. 15.24.2Co. e John 1. 16. 13, 31. Ac.18.21. fPhi.3.20, ch. 4. 19.

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g Ge. 5, 3.

Ja. 4. 15.

h Ac.14.27. h Ro. 8.29.2 Co. 2. 12. 2 Co. 3. 18. Col. 4. 3. & 4. 11. Re. 3. 8. Phi. 3. 21. 1 Jo. 3. 2.

i Ac. 19. 9.

i Mat. 16.

17. John 3.

Ac 19.22. ch. 4. 17.

/ Ro.16.21.

3, 5. * 1 Th. 4. 15, 16, 17. Phi, 3.21.

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6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. 7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord per

mit.

8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

9 For ha great door and effectual is opened unto me, and i there are many adversaries.

10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

11 m Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth nin peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

m 1 Ti. 4. m Zec. 9. 12. 12 As touching our brother • A14. Mat.24. 31. John 5. Ac. 15. pollos, I greatly desired him to 25. 1 Th. 4. 33. come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.

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13 p Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

14 Let all your things be done with charity.

15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is u the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth. 17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: a for that which was lacking on your part, they have He. 13. supplied.

2 Co.8.4.

& 9. 1. He. t2Pe.3.14. 6. 10. u ch. 3. 8.

Ac. 11.

29.&24.17.

17.

He.6.10.

a 2Co.11.9. Phi. 2. 30. Philem.13.

b Col. 4. 8.

1Th.5.12.

Phi. 2. 29. Ro. 15. 26. d Ro. 16.5, 2 Co.8.4.& 15. Phi9.1,12. Ga. lem. 2.

2. 10. b Ac. 20.7. Re. 1. 10.

19.

e Ro.16.16. 2 Th. 3.17. f Col.4.18. g Ep. 6.24. Ga.1.8,9.

Jude 14.

Ro.16.20.

3 And when I come, whomsoe2Co.8.19. ever ye shall approve by your + Gr. gift. letters, them will I send to bring 2 Co. 8.4,6, 15. your liberality unto Jerusalem. 44 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. 5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Ma

d 2 Co. 8.4,

19.

e Ac.19.21. 2 Co. 1. 16.

18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore cacknowledge ye them that are such. 19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, d with the church that is in their house. 20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.

21 The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

22 If any man love not the Anathema, i Maran-atha. Lord Jesus Christ, let him be

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

The first epistle to the Corin

thians was written from Phi

lippi, by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL, THE APOSTLE,

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THE CORINTHIANS.

CHAP. I.

3 The apostle encourageth them against troubles, by the comforts and deliverances which God had given him, as in all his afflictions, 8 so particularly in his late danger in Asia. 12 And calling both his own conscience and theirs to witness of his sincere manner of preaching the immutable truth of the gospel, 15 he excuseth his not coming to them, as proceeding not of lightness, but of his lenity towards them.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 dBlessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

A. D. 60. A. D. CO.

n ch. 2. 17.
& 4. 2.

o 1 Co. 2.4,
13.

p ch.5.12.

1 Co.1.1.
Ep. 1. 1.
Col. 1. 1.17 Phi. 2.16.
Ti. 1. 1, 24.1. 1Th.
Ti. 1. 1. 2. 19, 20.
Phi. 1.1.1Co.4.19.

Col. 1. 2.

e Ro. 1. 7.

Ro. 1. 11.

Or,

1 Co. 1. 3. grace.
Ga. 1. 3.1Co.16.5,

Phi. 1. 2.
6.
Col. 1. 2. 1
Th. 1. 1.
2 Th. 12.
Philem. 3.

d Ep. 1. 8.

that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

14 As also ye have acknowledg ed us in part, P that we are your rejoicing, even as 7 ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea.

17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I 1 Pe. 1. 3. u ch. 10. 2. purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

e Ac. 9. 4. Or,
ch. 4. 10. preaching,
Col. 1. 24.

Ma. 1. 1.
Lu. 1. 35.
Ac. 9. 20.

18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not wrought. y He. 13.8. yea and nay, but in him was

fch. 4.15. I Or,

6 And whether we be afflicted, fit is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same suffer-is ings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of hour trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us:

11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that m for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,

Ro. 15.8, 9.

Ro.8.17. a 1Jo.2.20, 2 Ti. 2. 12. 27.

Ep. 1. 13.
& 4. 90. 2
Ac.19.23. Ti. 2. 19.

1 Co.15.32. Re. 2. 17.
& 16. 9.
c ch. 5. 5.

1 Or,
answer.

Ep. 1. 14.

d Ro. 1. 9.
ch. 11. 31.
Ga. 1. 20.
i Je.17.5,7. Phi. 1. 8.
e 1Co.4.21.

* 2 Pe. 2.9. ch. 2. 3. &
12.20.13.
2, 10.

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20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

21 Now he which establisheth us with you in Christ, and 4 hath anointed us, is God;

22 Who bhath also sealed tis, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 Moreover, I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

24 Not for f that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

CHAP. II.

1 Having shewed the reason why he came not to them, 6 he requireth them to forgive and to comfort that excommunicated person, 10 even as himself also upon his true repentance had forgiven him, 12 declaring withal why he departed from Troas to Macedonia, 14 and the happy success which God Fave to his preaching in all places. QUT I determined this with myself, a that I would not

&12.20,21. B

& 13. 10.

Success of Paul's preaching. come again to you in heavi

ness.

2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

II. CORINTHIANS.

A. D. 60.

3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should b ch.12.21. have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confi-e ch. 7. 16. dence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; d not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

&8.22. Ga.

5. 10.

A. D. 60.

a ch.5. 12.

& 10.8, 12. & 12. 11. b Ac.18.27.

c 1 Co. 9.2.

d 1 Co.3.5.

d ch.7.8,9, e Ex.24.12.

12.

e1 Co. 5.1.

fGa. 4.12.

6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted Or, of many.

censure.

7h So that contrariwise, ye g 1 Co. 5.4, ought rather to forgive him, and

5.1Ti.5 20.

& 34. 1. f Ps. 40.8. Je. 31. 33.

Ez. 11. 19.

& 36. 26.

He. 8. 10.

g John 15.

15. ch. 2.16.

h 1 Co. 15. 10. Phi. 2. 13.

1 Co. 3.5.

comfort him, lest perhaps such anh Ga. 6. 1. &15.10.ch.

one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

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Of the gospel ministration.

faith and graces of the Corinthians to be a sufficient commendation of his ministry. 6 Whereupon entering a comparison between the ministers of the law and of the gospel, 12 he prov eth that his ministry is so far the more excellent, as the gospel of life and liberty is more glorious than the law of condemnation.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all

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13 m 1 had no rest in my spirit, m ch.7.5,6. Ex.34.29, made glorious had no glory in

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this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

14 But y their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

16 Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, a the vail shall be taken away.

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:

Paul's comfort in afliction.

and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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e 1 Co. 13. e ch. 1. 11. 12. & 8. 19. &

1 Ti. 1. 11. e Ro. 8.29.

18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass & the glo- ch. 4.4,6. 9. 11, 12. ry of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. CHAP. IV.

1 He declareth how he hath used all sincerity and faithful diligence in preaching the gospel, 7 and how the troubles and persecutions which he daily endured for the same did redound to the praise of God's power, 12 to the benefit of the Church, 16 and to the apostle's own eternal glory.

TH

1 Co.15.49. Col. 3. 10. Or, of the Lord the Spirit. a ch. 3. 6. b1Co 7.25.

Ro. 7.22. Ep. 3. 16. Col. 3. 10. 1 Pe. 3. 4. Mat. 5. 12. Ro. 8.

18. 1 Pe. 1.

1 Ti. 1. 13. 6. & 5. 10. Ro. 8.24. ch.5.7.He. 11. 1.

+ Gr. shame, Ro. 1.16.&

HEREFORE, seeing we have 6. 21. a this ministry, bas we have received mercy, we faint not;

2 But have renounced the hidden things of t dishonesty; not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, d by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

c ch. 2. 17. 1 Th 2.3,5. d ch. 6.4,7. & 7. 14. e ch. 5. 11. f1Co.1.18. ch. 2. 15. 2 Th. 2. 10. g John 12. 31.& 14.30. & 16. 11. Ep. 6. 12.

3 But if our gospel be hid, fit is hls. 6. 10. hid to them that are lost:

4 In whom & the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and m ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkhath shined in our hearts, ness, to give Pthe light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

11 For we which live y are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

13 We having a the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

John12.40. cb. 3. 14.

i ch. 3.8, 9, 11, 18. ver.

6.

* John 1 18.& 12.45. &14.9.Phi. 2. 6. Col. 1. 15.He.1.3. 11 Co.1.13, 23. & 10.33.

a Job 4.19.

Pe. 1. 13, 14.

His hope of immortal glory. sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet fthe inward man is renewed day by day.

17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

18 h While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

CHAP. V.

1 That in his assured hope of immortal glory, 9 and in expectance of it, and of the general judgment, he labouréth to keep a good conscience, 12 not that he may herein boast of himself, 14 but as one that, having received life from Christ, endeavour eth to live as a new creature to Christ only, 18 and by his ministry of reconciliation to reconcile others also in Christ to God.

ch 4. 7. 2 FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not inade with hands, eternal in the heavens.

b Ro.8.23.

m 1 Co. 9. e Re. 3. 18. 19.ch.1.24. & 16. 15.

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2 For in this bwe groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but d clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

5. Now he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

7 (For 8 we walk by faith, not by sight:)

8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

10 i For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Chris; that every one may receive the things done in as body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but m we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Christ died for all.

12 For a we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer thein which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your

cause.

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

17 Therefore, if any man u be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and bath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

19 To wit, that a God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath + committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then we are bambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

II. CORINTHIANS.

A. D. 60.

n ch. 3. 1.

ch. 1. 14.

+ Gr. in the face. p ch. 11. 1, 16,17.& 12. 6, 11.

A. D. 60.

ch.11.23, &c.

Or, in tossings to and fro.

h ch. 4. 2.
& 7. 14.
il Co. 2.4.

k ch. 10. 4. Ro. 5.15. Ep.6.11,13.

2 Ti. 4. 7.

r Ro. 6. 11, ch. 4.2. & 12. & 14. 7, 5.11. & 11. a.1Co.0.19.6. Ga. 2. 20. 1 Th. 5.10. 1 Pe. 4. 2.

m 1Co.4.9. ch.1.9.&4. 10, 11. n Ps. 118. 50.John15. 18.

Mat. 12.

14. Ga.5.6. Phi. 3.7, 8.

Col. 3. 11. ch. 7. 3.

t John 6.

63.

Paul's faithful ministry.

God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

7h By the word of truth, by i the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

9 As unknown, and yet well known; mas dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

12 Ye are not straitened in us, u Ro. 8. 9. p ch.12.15. but Pye are straitened in your own bowels.

& 16.7.Ga. 6. 15.

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1 That he hath approved himself a faithful minister of Christ, both by his exhortations, 3 and by integrity of life, 4 and by patient enduring all kinds of affliction and disgraces for the gospel. 10 Of which he speaketh the more boldly amongst them, because his heart is open to them, 13 and he expecteth the like affection from them again, 14 exhorting to flee the society and pollutions of idolaters, as being themselves temples of the living God.

bJob 33.23. Mal. 2. 7. ch.3.6. Ep. 6. 20.

11.

t 1Co.3.16. & 6.19.Ep. 2. 21, 22. He. 3. 6.

u Ex. 29. 45. Le. 26. 12. Je. 31. 33.&32.38. Ez. 11. 20. e ch. 6. 1.& 36.28. & d Is. 53. 6, 37. 26, &c. 9,12. Ga.3. Zec. 8.8.& 13. 1 Pe. 2. 13. 9.

22,24. 1 Jo. Is. 52.11. ch.7.1.Re. 18. 4.

3. 5. e Ro. 1.17

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WE then, as a workers togeth- 1 Co.3.9.

er with him, b beseech youb ch. 5. 20. also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 (For he saith, dI have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of

c He.12.15.

d Is. 49. 8.

e Ro.14.13.

13 Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for s what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you;

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

CHAP. VII.

1 He proceedeth in exhorting them to purity of life, 2 and to bear him like affection as he doth to them. 3 Whereof lest he might seem to doubt, he declareth what comfort he took in his afflictions, by the report which Titus gave of their godly sorrow, which his former epistle had wrought in them, 13 and of their loving-kindness and obedience towards Titus, answerable to his former boastings of them.

1 Co. 9. 124 ch. 8. 17, HAVING a therefore these pro

& 10. 32. 18.1Jo.3.3.

+ Gr. commending, ch. 4. 2. f1 Co.4.1.

mises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2 Receive us; we have wronged

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