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But I will tarry at Ephesus vntill Pentecost.

Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that hee may come vnto me: for I looke for him with the brethren.

As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come vnto you with ye brethren, but his wil was not at all to come at this time: but he wil come when hee shall haue conuenient time.

But we had the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not trust in our selues, but in God which raiseth the dead.

For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie, not with fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God, wee haue had our conuersation in the world, and more aboundantly to youwards.

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

For the Sonne of God Iesus Christ, who was preached among you by vs, euen by me, and Syluanus and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay, but in him, was yea.

Not for that we haue dominion ouer your faith, but are helpers of your ioy: for by faith ye stand.

But I determined this with my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse.

For if I make you sorie, who is hee then that maketh mee glad, but the same which is made sorie by me.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that you should bee grieued, but that yee might knowe the loue which I haue more abundantly vnto you.

But if any haue caused griefe, hee hath not grieued mee, but in part: that I may not ouercharge you all.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ.

Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs, written not with inke, but with the spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God:

Who also hath made vs able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giueth life.

But if the ministration of death written, and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly beholde the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glorie was to be done away:

But their mindes were blinded: for vntill this day remaineth the same vaile vntaken away, in the reading of the old testament: which vaile is done away in Christ.

But euen vnto this day, when Moses is read, the vaile is vpon their heart.