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For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace may, through the thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is wasted, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.

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

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.

For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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

For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not because we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.

Now he that hath wrought us for this same thing [is] God, who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

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

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to what he hath done, whether good or bad.

For we commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to [answer] them who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we are sober, [it is] for your cause.

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

And [that] he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

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

For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

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

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